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From: "Jerry Bryan" <>
Subject: Re: [GENSMARTS] wrong century suggestions
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:15:17 -0500
References: <20080102.004912.16311.5@webmail20.vgs.untd.com><D20EC506CFF44962BB3158ED2672B00C@AaronPC>


Is there any capability for individual users to change or otherwise influence their own local copy of the record inventory?

I'm sure this idea is bound to make GenSmarts support cringe because of all the mischief we users could cause ourselves. But I also could see some advantages. Here are some examples.

1. I live in Tennessee, and I'm forever getting suggestions to look for birth records in a series of books of Tennessee records that are entitled things like Sevier County Vital Records 1914-1925. I know these books very well, I own many of them, and for the ones I don't own I use them at the library. The only problem is that notwithstanding the title of "Vital Records", these books are Death Certificate Indexes. So if somebody was born in 1920 in Sevier County, I'm not going to find their birth record in Sevier County Vital Records 1914-1925. I may find information about their death if they died in 1920, but not their birth. I would really like to be able to turn off these suggestions.

2. I'm getting suggestions to look for WWII Army Enlistment records at WorldFamilyTree.com. I'm subscribing to WorldFamilyTree.com temporarily to see if it's worth the money, but I'm just as likely if not more so to find the same WWII Army Enlistment records at ancestry.com, to which I am a long time subscriber and it's definitely worth the money. So I would like to either turn off these suggestions, or else redirect them to ancestry.com.

3. The Tennessee State Library and Archives is gradually placing statewide Death Certificate Indexes online for all years. (Of course, they are labeling these records on the Web as "Vital Records" rather than as "Death Certificate Indexes".) In any case, I would like to be able to add these records to my own local copy of the record inventory.

Jerry Bryan

It's probably just a typo in the record inventory regarding the years that
the suggested set of records covers. Like a book that shows up on the wrong
shelf at the library, this happens occasionally in the suggestion inventory.
If you send the record set id of the suggestion (it's a the very botton of
the explanation) to we'll check it and correct it for
the next update.


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