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From: "M. Joan Meddaugh" <>
Subject: Re: [PAGENWEB] Family Search Info
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:35:36 -0800


Family Search isn't the only one that has big boo boo's on it. even
Ancestry.com and World Connect have the same problem. I have even sent
the people the right information and they still insist on keeping the
wrong info in their history of my relatives. How dumb can one be?

Joan in NY but with family the Swartz/Say and Gee and Harrison and
Webster family in Pa.
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:18:35 -0700 "sally montgomery"
<> writes:
> Yes, I get on something from my kin which I did not have anything to
> do with
> and I don't know who did. Dates are wrong, spelling is wrong, names
> are
> wrong. So you do need to document on your own if you acquire
> information
> from some of these Family search websites. Some of it is good
> tho..so you
> can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just check. imo
> sally
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ginny" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [PAGENWEB] Family Search Info
>
>
> > Could not agree more with Charnee. Just because it is on family
> search,
> > it
> > is not gospel! As she says, please check the evidence for
> yourself.
> > Ginny Hardy
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charnee Smit" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:56 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PAGENWEB] Family Search Info
> >
> >
> >> Just a caution to those who find information on their
> >> ancestors at Family Search: That information is only
> >> what some researchers have submitted. It may or may
> >> not be documented. Sometimes if you follow up on
> >> these submissions, you find a chain of genealogies
> >> quoting genealogies without any proof it is true.
> >>
> >> You still must try to find independent evidence that
> >> the data is correct, such as marriage records, census
> >> records, etc. Otherwise you are only quoting what
> >> some other genealogy says without evidence.
> >>
> >> Charnee Smit
> >>
> >>
> >>
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