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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Exporting files to older FTM
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 20:16:04 -0500
References: <798493.80822.qm@web88301.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <798493.80822.qm@web88301.mail.re4.yahoo.com>


Pierce Reid wrote:
> Rick Van Dusen wrote:
> <<There is an advantage to transmitting in this form anyway (stating my
> opinion and that of several others I've been in contact with): The
> recipient must enter the data manually, which requires him/her to look
> critically at the data. This both gives the recipient a really good
> understanding of the data and gives the sender feedback, in questions
> and corrections.>>
>
> I also only send my genealogy data via reports, but that does not require the recipient to "look critially at the data". As much as I would want my recipient to look for errors, incomplete or fuzzy ideas, or missing data, that only sometimes happens. We've had a relative post on the web data from one of our reports, which we had later corrected on our data base, but which he had just accepted uncritically.
>
> Pierce

Pierce:

You are right, of course, but if the information is sent via a report,
the recipient must at least SEE it in order to enter it into their own
program. Whether they LOOK at it is another matter. You can only help so
much. But Rick is also right; there is an advantage if you don't make
the process automatic.

Darrell


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