Robert Melson wrote: > Charani <SGBNOSPAM@ mail2genes.invalid> writes: >> On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:20:46 -0600, clifto wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> The IGI and their associated Pedigree and Ancestral files are a waste >> of time because of the inaccuracies and outright fantasy entries. >> It's a resource I rarely ever use now either. >> >> It is only one part of their holdings though, albeit the best known. > > But why criticize the LDS/familysearch for the same problem > one finds on RootsWeb and/or Ancestry? Author Theodore > Sturgeon (Phillip Klass) famously said, "90% of everything is > crap." I find a lot of usable stuff on rootsweb and on ancestry. I don't find any usable stuff on LDS. I criticize those entities where I find no usable stuff. -- If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination, my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin.
clifto wrote: > Robert Melson wrote: >> Charani <SGBNOSPAM@ mail2genes.invalid> writes: >>> On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:20:46 -0600, clifto wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>> The IGI and their associated Pedigree and Ancestral files are a waste >>> of time because of the inaccuracies and outright fantasy entries. >>> It's a resource I rarely ever use now either. >>> >>> It is only one part of their holdings though, albeit the best known. >> But why criticize the LDS/familysearch for the same problem >> one finds on RootsWeb and/or Ancestry? Author Theodore >> Sturgeon (Phillip Klass) famously said, "90% of everything is >> crap." > > I find a lot of usable stuff on rootsweb and on ancestry. I don't find any > usable stuff on LDS. I criticize those entities where I find no usable > stuff. which means you did not look in the right place what could you not find on fsmilysearch.org ? what have you uploaded to the other sites? Hugh W