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<DIV>I have a relative who sumitted years of work to LDS and the messed it
up. He still cannot get it</DIV>
<DIV>straightened out.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=khanjehgil@presys.com href="mailto:khanjehgil@presys.com">Leslie
Chapman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 14, 2004 4:41 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [or-roots] Uploads and
Documentation of Files</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Cecil;<BR><BR>As I understand it part of the problem is that
they aren't "cast in stone"<BR>one of the ladies in our local gen society had
submitted her family with<BR>proper proof and documentation and then some
distant cousin came along and<BR>changed a lot of what she had submitted to
reflect anecdotal family<BR>histories that she had labored for years to prove
or disprove and had<BR>conclusively proven were not the facts, but the church
in it's infinite<BR>wisdom allowed him to amend her files and didn't even
bother to tell her<BR>about it, the first she knew about it was when some
third party was selling<BR>her information with the incorrect amendations to
it and a fourth party took<BR>her to task for doing "bad
genealogy".<BR><BR>Are we confused yet?<BR><BR>The biggest problem is that
they are indiscriminate in the online stuff as<BR>to how it is done, anybody
can submit a file to the web site in any<BR>condition and they just post them,
and then some poor amatuer comes along<BR>and assumes they are gospel and puts
them in their tree and furthers the<BR>crime. I know Iwas guilty of that when
I started out I stuck a couple of LDS<BR>files into my family tree, they are
still the root of my maternal<BR>grandmother's line, but when I started
proving things and discovered one of<BR>the great grands who had only been
married once in reality was married to<BR>her twenty times in my file I
smelled a rat. I do not merge files ever<BR>again, and pretty much no longer
use anything that doesn't have sources,<BR>unless I have confirmed it
seperately.<BR><BR>Of coures I know you are only "supposed" to use stuff you
have two "proven"<BR>original sources for, but I would have gotten bored
and/or bankrupted at<BR>about person number two hundred that way, but I have
nearly 9000 folks in my<BR>family tree, the core of which I am fairly
confident of and which I know I<BR>will not live long enough to prove even a
tenth of let alone all of them. My<BR>only regret is I probably never will
ferret out all the bogus relatives I<BR>have as a result of those first two
files.<BR><BR>Les<BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Cecil
Houk<BR>Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 3:59 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Uploads
and Documentation of Files<BR><BR><BR>I agree with Gary that LDS files contain
errors. I forget the man's name,<BR>but one of my 1850's ancestors
married his mother on the day he was born...<BR>according to LDS files.
:-) It's too bad those files are etched in
stone.<BR><BR>Cecil<BR><BR>---<BR>Outgoing mail is certified Virus
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