Ron, Just a quick response to two things; 1-the extracted data -- that is what is being transcribed and posted on the record pilot site free of charge and available to the general public. It is not part of the NFS 'tree' that has been debated here. I would think 'eventually' NFS would be able to allow users to attach the source image to their 'tree person' as Ancestry.com now does but that's not going to happen soon as far as I have heard 2- the 'member trees' are what is in NFS, however, there are individuals who were extracted from the records mentioned above; i.e., a marriage record might have husband, wife and their two sets of parents so you could see that little tree in NFS. You might search for the husband and find him attached to the wife and then see that both sets of parents are there. Then you could start searching for and connecting (or adding new) the siblings or other generations.
Some of the older trees can be more accurate and 'brick wall smashing' than newer ones. Although unsourced, most of their records did come from extensive research and family bibles (I said 'most' :-) Some from memories of older people long since gone and took all of those memories with them. These can be the most important clues that send us in search of more records (as has been said in other posts); of course, they didn't have access to all of the paper documents and especially the digital ones. We've only had such quick access to these for a short time. I believe some of the actual family group sheets that were submitted originally are actually available on microfilm and sometimes they do have notations as to where they obtained the data but definitely not always. I just smashed through a brick wall in Sweden because someone saw a message of mine on Rootsweb and directed me to a Swedish family history site that had some of my names. Just the little bit of data on that site sent me to the right area of Sweden for me to find the actual records. Finding trees online have been my absolute BEST way to break down my personal brick walls and searching for the evidence is my job. Enjoy your day! Kathy On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Ron Ferguson <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk>wrote: > Roy, > > Whereas I may differ from you regarding the value of the the old Family > Group Sheets, as far as I know, it is correct to say that they were user > submitted and (like all extracted data) need to be treated with some > caution. In fact all extracted data should be verified from as many sources > as possible. > > The IGI is, however, different in that it specified whether the data was > extracted by their members, in which case it is likely to be more accurate > than data extracted by others. It is also my understanding that the IGI, > which was still available when I last looked, is separate from the indexing > which was done by volunteers such as myself. > > I am unsure as to whether or not FS will ever attach the original images to > the extracted data and as somebody else said (Kathy?) one indexing is > compared with that compiled by another indexer of the same sheet and any > variances resolved by an adjudicator. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > *From:* roy_delos_re...@comcast.net > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 19, 2011 1:08 PM > *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] It's official - Legacy 7.5 is now available > > Ron, > > Since all the info from the old IGI is going into the new Family Search it > has a direct connection to it. > the NFS should *only* contain extracted data-period. > > User submitted Family Group Sheets simply are not evidence, and thus have > no place in a Database of genealogical records. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Ferguson" <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:45:08 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] It's official - Legacy 7..5 is now available > > Whilst the old IGI may be still be available, I suspect that it has little > or no connection with the new Family Search. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > -- Kathy Meyer "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
