First off, I am not an LDS member or follower. About 15 years ago, I looked on the LDS site for info on my fathers side of the family. They may have cleaned up their act by now but the information I got was awful. It was as if the submitters were in a rush to submit whatever they could and did so. There did not seem to be any supporting documents required nor checked upon. They did have a disclaimer though which said to check with the submitter to correct any errors. I checked with several submitters and got a response from one of them. He said that he got the data from a member of his cheurch and was only the mechanic that input the data and that he had lost track of the person he did it for.
I guess the bottom line is "buyer beware"! Yes, it's free, but it still applies. Jim On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Eliz Hanebury <elizhg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have to say, the errors are often of the people giving and taking > down information. There is currently no way to correct errors, they > [Support at familysearch] say some day there will be, but they are > concentrating on making a site that will work. > > > Eliz > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Jennifer Crockett > <jcrock...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > I am not LDS. I have accessed one of the new collections recently and > found errors. What can one do about this? See below. The bride's date of > birth should be 6 July 1837 not 6 Dec 1837. The place of marriage was not > Karby, but Redsted. I know this from the online Danish Archives which show > original images. I verified the correct details with the image of the > marriage record and the death record for Else Anderson. > > > > Denmark Marriages, 1635-1916 > > > > Groom's Name: Peter Villadsen > > Groom's Age: 24 > > Bride's Name: Else Andersen > > Bride's Birth Date: 06 Dec 1837 > > Bride's Age: 29 > > Marriage Date: 12 Oct 1866 > > Marriage Place: Karby, Thisted, Denmark > > > > Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01212-8 > > System Origin: Denmark-EASy > > Source Film Number: 410117 > > Reference Number: 5-185-6 > > > > There was no image associated with this LDS record. I just want to warn > people that not all these types of records are error free. > > > > Regards, > > > > Jennifer > > http://colston-wenck.com > > > > > > From: Kathy Meyer [mailto:kmeyer2...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, 19 January 2011 4:13 AM > > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] It's official - Legacy 7.5 is now available > > > > Family Search has not been ignoring the general public while working on > NFS though! I think everyone is aware of the record search pilot, right? > Thousands of people are digitizing records daily, mostly LDS but the > general public is welcome and encouraged to be involved in this project as > well; and lots of non-LDS people are doing this too. There are loads of US > and foreign records on the site for everyone to search and use in their > research FREE of charge as always. New collections are added to the > database regularly as they are completed and verified. Many collections > even have the images available for you to download FREE as well. There will > be some databases that will have images linked to a subscription site > because of the arrangements made between that site and the church in > exchange for being allowed to index the records but those will be a very > small percentage of the whole; I'm not even sure if there are any like that > thus far. > > > > > > Kathy > > > > > > > > > > > > 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> > > > > > > > > > > > > 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> > > > > 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
