On 8/24/2020 10:40 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:

On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 08:51:00 +0200, Steve Hayes
<hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:

For the last few years I've been using FamilySearch a lot, comparing
our records with ones on their family tree, and trying to verify
everything.

But they recently seem to have acquired a new source, "Cumbria Parish
Records", which they are showing in their "Hints". It actually seems
to be an index rather than a transcription, and has far less
information than their "English Birth and Christenings" resource,
which is a transcription rather than an index, and often has a link to
images of the actual parish records where you can check the accuracy
of the transcription.

I've now incorporated some warnings about this in a blog post on
"Getting the best out of FamilySearch"

<https://hayesgreene.blogspot.com/2020/08/getting-best-out-of-familysearch.html>
or
https://t.co/XRQDD6SXDf?amp=1

It was also prompted by complaints on a Facebook genealogy group from
people who said they had started "my tree" on FamilySearch, and were
enraged when people merged people on "my tree" without their
permission.

If you have any good hints and tips on using FamilySearch, please
write them here, and possibly in comments on the blog post.

There are too many morons doing family trees at FamilySearch.

One such clueless moron merged their Irish tree with my Irish tree
without bothering to notice that their family settled in Chicago and
mine is in NYC.

Oh, "goodness me" says the clueless moron, "that family with a William,
John, Bridget and Mary must be the same as my family with a William,
John, Bridget and Mary".


No, it is not your family and not the hundred other families with a
William, John, Bridget and Mary.

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