The LDS, ancestry, 2 county web sites all have copied a book that has wrong info in it and POSTED on the net. They copied word for word the 1880 census record for Sumner County TN straight from a book. My grt. grt. grandad and his father are listed as born 10 years apart and their last name is spelled wrong.Know its them all the wives names, kids match up. A book of Sumner County Cemetery records is also on net, and it has 5 people whose funeral i attended in 1 cemetery thats not listed. On 1/5/08, hlmw <hlmw1@telus.net> wrote: > > > > clifto wrote: > > JD wrote: > > > >> Until we find out what the LDS is brewing, > >> > > > > I hate to say it, but what I've seen of LDS so far is highly > disappointing. > > What little tiny fragments of my family tree I've found there are sparse > > and inaccurate. I've pretty much stopped using their site as a resource. > > > It is not a resource per se, it is a guide. If you only look at the > Ancestry File it is will often be incorrect. I have an error I am trying > to correct because someone submitted wrong information. However, if you > consult the IGI it is going to be a lot more accurate, alsi Census are > more accurate. > Do not use the Ancestry File, it will only mislead. It was compiled as > an experiment by the LDS Church to get their members to submit 4 > generations of their families. Much of it was done from memory by those > families, not from accurate records. > Repeat: DO NOT TRUST ANCESTRY FILE! > Other than that the IGI data is very helpful. It is always being added > to so don't give up. Go back and check again. > Lorna > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALT-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Proud member of IBSSG