I am a missionary at the main Family History Library. Right now the developers can't promise that if sources are added they will still be there after more development. So we've been advised not to bother to type in the sources, but to do so when they finish the development, by which time Legacy will certainly be ready. Sourcing is very important. If Legacy's integration is ready earlier (and includes sources) you can certainly add the sources but recheck later to be sure you don't have to replace the info. The expert on our floor says he has made sure of complete documentation for his first eight generations to be ready.
Utah and other state(s) left to the last were added about December. A new Beta test is about to get underway. Charlotte -----Original Message----- From: Heather Stovold <hstov...@gmail.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Tue, May 4, 2010 12:28 pm Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family Search Integration You can post souces on newFamilySearch - but they are not required. It has been doing a good job of consolidating information from various LDS sources (a HUGE process of course) as well as anything people submit or put up.... but it is an interesting process because there may be a few people working on an individual's information, or there may be hundreds or thousands of people working on it. I believe that is why most of Utah, even if LDS, have not yet been included in the beta, because of the number of people doing genealogy on the same people... Basically there can be hundreds of submitters of same/similar information, and getting it consolidated correctly is hard. A lot of the stuff already on newFamilySearch doesn't have source information to primary or even what I would call a secondary source.... a lot of the current source information just ways which LDS information database it came from - and for a lot the submitter name (which for a lot of the old stuff (ie submitted to an LDS database a long time ago) is just a code. You are able to declare yourself the submitter of information that just has a code for the submitter name if you have a reasonable expectation of having been that person. (ie, I have declared myself to be submitter #whatever) to some stuff that was submitted to the Ancestral File, as I did submit stuff back then, and the information being displayed from that submitter looked like it probably would match what I had back then.... On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Kirsten Bowman <vik...@rvi.net> wrote: Bruce: Do you recall anything from the presentation about including sources with the information that individuals upload from Legacy, or if there are sources with the information already at newFamilySearch? I was under the impression that one goal of newFamilySearch was to clean up/consolidate information in various LDS databases but can't see how things would improve unless sources are provided and/or required. Was there any discussion about that? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
