On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 07:30:37 +0200, Steve Hayes
<
hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:34:21 GMT, Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh
Sullivan) wrote:
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:52:48 +0200, Steve Hayes
<hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
If you are sure your data is better, copy iy across.
Steve Hayes
I don't release my data to commercial entities. Too many people have
posted incorrect data and people copy without checking.
FamilySearch isn't a commercial entity.
By commercial entities I actually meant Ancestry.com.
And I copy mine across precisely because too many people have posted >incorrect data and people copy without checvking. Much of my
genealogicval activity these days is checking and corrwecting, both in
my iown records and on FamilySearch.
I find that too few people appreciate that. I came to a conclusion
about 20 years ago that I later determined was incorrect. I informed
the people I gave the info. Not only would one or two not change,
several others had copied by that time.
Another researcher dot a lot of data from me and posted her version on
Ancestry with numerous obvious errors. When others errors are noted
they often will not even answer requests to discuss.
For example, a distant cousin in Canada sent me a descendant report
from her tree. I found several errors in what she sent, and on
FamilySearch -- children attributed to wrong parents etc. I used
FamilySearch to check, merge and correct both my own local tree and
the one on FamilySearch. That impoves FamilySearch of other
researches, so at least if they copy without checking there will be
fewer errors in what they copy. And I send my Canadian cousin revised
family group sheets for each corrected family.
My sincere compliments.
In my situation the prents of my gg grandfather will never be proven -
too many records destroyed by war, fire and fllod, even if they ever
existed. So we wind up with 9 situations I can disprove and my
unarguable position that can't be proved.
I just recently switched to RM as my main program and I had never
spent much time with Family Search before. I'm long past the point
when anyone can give me data I don't have other than recent families -
and I find it boring to work on the current family of a third cousin
twice removed. :) However, right or wrong, I am finding a few older
female surnames and sever dates that I did not have (all about people
I never heard of).
Though I've heard a new version of RootsMagic is due to come out, and
I fear that it may no longer work on my computer, and that version 7
will no longer be maintained, so I'll lose the FamilySearch
connection. Since I'm a pensioner, I cannot afford to buy a new
computer every couple of years to "improve" my "user experience".
I am fortunate in that regard. My company had an excellent retirement
program - my military pension pays all medical that Medicare does not
pay and most of the drug cost - and the sons and grandsons are
self-supporting. We have always been fiscally conservative.
I have an Asus and Surface Pro 6, both with i7 chips, 2 and 1 year old
- both gifts from my wife. I use one for desktop and the other
portable.
Hugh
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