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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Ancestry new policy
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 06:38:28 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <p06100504bcbb57b4d901@[10.0.1.203]>


--- Larry Tesler <> wrote:
>
> The new One World Tree, a different product, uses
> proprietary
> Ancestry.com software to find common people and
> branches in different
> people's trees and stitch them together to form
> larger trees.


A simple question: how do they stitch together
the myriads of multiple parents for one person?

How do people download data when people are their
own parents, which will happen all the time
because of missing or extra generations?

What do they do about all the myriads of paths they
will get between a given person and Adam?

This idea worked for Iceland where one team did it
by hand .... but for the whole world automatically?

It took me months to piece together my own tree from
Rootsweb, Genealogy.com and a little bit from the LDS
because of mistakes.

Doug McDonald




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