Every bit of information that you share with NFS or that you share 'from' NFS is under your control; every single piece of information is 'shared' individually at your fingertips. You choose what you want to 'give' to NFS and what to 'take' from NFS.
Once you have contributed something to NFS, it is out there for the public, however. Others can see it; others can include your new information in their personal databases if they'd like to. You can source your data on NFS but at present it is a separate process. Legacy does not automatically put a source into the NFS database if you put info from your file on it. When you take information 'from' NFS into your Legacy file, it 'does' automatically source that information as having come from NFS; it also automatically puts the NFS id# in the appropriate field in your Legacy file. You gotta love that feature! Also, if you're familiar with NFS at all, when duplicates are combined, it creates obvious multiple name, birthdate, etc. entries. NFS allows you to choose which of those entries should be the 'first' or 'priority' one and thus will display first on searches, etc. You can actually do that process right from the Legacy screen too; plus Legacy will take you straight to your person in NFS whenever you want; quick! Of course, someone else who may have submitted alternate data can come along and do the same thing and change the primary 'name' for instance to the one that they think is more correct. But NFS (not Legacy yet) allows you to 'watch' a person and they will send you an email every week letting you know what data may have been updated during the week. Lots of cool stuff but I've got to stop answering this list because I'll never get anything done today :-) Kathy On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:28 AM, James Cook <jc1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Kathy Meyer <kmeyer2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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 getting the sense that new family search is more or less just a > re-branding of the old FS, with the majority of the data being the > same and/or expanded extracted data with pointers to films or other > sources. I'd like to know what Legacy is doing with this information. > Does it pull in the extracts into your database, then create TODO's > to look up the originals. Or, like Ancestry, it just sources > something generic like "from one or more member trees'? > > > > 2- the 'member trees' are what is in NFS, however... > > Ah ha! That's the bit I've been missing. The big deal to Legacy must > be the ability to post and sync these member trees with NFS. I can > see value in being able to keep a Legacy database in sync with an > online version too. Mike Fry expressed some concern over control with > data pushed to NFS, meaning these member trees??? Are these concern > beyond the same old, same old concerns like Ancestry and others > selling your hard work, or is it more like you don't have control over > how much or how little you decide to share? > > > > 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> > > > > -- 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
