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From: "Joy Bracewell" <>
Subject: Re: LDS and FTM
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 09:14:00 -0600
References: <0.c90c96b2.254f6769@aol.com>

I too have had a problem with my BRACEWELL line on LDS. They have my
grandparents, Payton and Emma Bracewell, having a son before my Dad. No
one in the family knows who this person is. I don't know who added it as
fact, don't recognize the submitter. Sometimes it hard to remember when
I am researching on the web just because someone wrote it doesn't make
it fact.
Thanks
Joy

wrote:
>
> There have been several messages on the Braswell Page that warned begining
> genealogists not to take info on the net, LDS and FTM as gospel. Here is
> another reinforcing message from the Johnson County, TN page that further
> reinforces that warning. - Cousin Foy
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> In a message dated 11/01/1999 11:01:50 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> << All of you please use the LDS records as a tool. There are excellent
> pieces of information there, but it needs to be verified. A few years ago I
> shared
> some of my husband's family information with a distant relative in Virginia.
> I then added my thoughts and theory on the family ... maybe they connect
> here or there, etc. .... specifically stating it was unproven and just my
> theory (gut feeling). I also noted what records I had checked and what
> needed to be checked. Yip ... he submitted it to Ancestral File (LDS).
> Everything that was "theory" was linked as factual.
>
> Ruby >>
>
> Ruby,
> I agree 150% with you. AND I'll add another 2 cents worth to the
> conversation. The same should be said for those horrid, horrid FTM world
> family tree CDs which are for sale now. I think they are the worst thing to
> ever happen to genealogy. People are falling all over themselves to submit
> their information to FTM, so FTM can turn around and sell it to researchers
> who take it as gospel. What people haven't taken time to realize is that not
> everyone cares whether the info they submit is correct, and Broderbund
> certainly doesn't verify what is submitted. Case in point -- someone got
> hold of some information on me, my 1st cousins, etc. back to my
> great-grandfather and submitted it to Broderbund. That would be okay EXCEPT
> for two things: (#1) the information they submitted wasn't even on one of
> their lines; and (#2) the information they submitted contained incorrect
> names, dates, marriages, etc. -- and a LOT of these people are still living
> so could have told this person the correct info (heck, even I would have).
> So now there's all this incorrect information floating around that will
> probably take years to get corrected. I'm probably the only person in the
> universe who WON'T submit my info to Broderbund and WON'T use the world
> family tree CDs -- but somehow my information ends up there anyway pressed
> into a CD for sale. Frustrating!!
>
> Neva

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