Just my two cents, but before anyone goes posting all sorts of information on public sites, they may want to read up on the coming changes to privacy in the EU and beyond with regards to the right of erasure and the right to be forgotten ..... Scott On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:26 AM, John Ritchings <jdr60@me.com> wrote: > Greetings Terry > > Thank you for your feedback. Inevitably, such a project is going to have > its problems. LDS has been doing a similar thing for many years but > without adequate controls. It is only now that it is attempting to address > the difficulties thereby caused. I have noticed that nonsense submitted to > LDS has been transferred directly on to WikiTree. > > Did you raise your concerns with those running the WikiTree project? What > was the response? Unless we all attempt to address the errors contained on > LDS, Ancestry, WikiTree, and other databases these errors will go on being > perpetrated. It is an enormous task and will take many years, but that, > IMHO, does not mean that we should not try. > > I would bet that everyone on this list has used the IGI. Well, there is > now an opportunity to give something back and help correct the errors and > omissions that are in the system. Instead of saying it will not work, make > it work. > > Regards > > > > John > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:35:34 -0000 > From: <Terryblackmore@blueyonder.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [DEV] LDS Changes > To: <devon@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <0974702F52234DF286AAD73BA22A01BB@TerryPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > The main problem on Wikitree is people merging several generations into one > person. These people who seem to know better than the rest of us lost two > generations of my family when they merged three generations of people named > John. I also found that their software was not the best in the world. It's > difficult at times to delete should you make an error. It also deleted my > email address. When I logged in again I had a new profile. Which didn't > connect to my family pedigree. It also fail to up load a gedcom file, they > request people to up load. Their idea of one vast family tree just isn't > going to work in my opinion. It will contain to many errors. Plus you could > get one person to wreck it all with false information. On principle I > decided not to add any more of my family to this source. > > Terry Blackmore > OPC, Sheldon, Devon. > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Ritchings > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:33 AM > To: DEVON-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [DEV] LDS Changes > > Greetings > > There is another development on Family Search which I have found to be > useful. > > I signed up to an account and as much of my research has been aided by LDS, > I though that I would give something back and put my tree on-line. > However, > as you build the tree, it identifies other likely matches on the database. > This may be a single entry or a whole tree. The net result is that I am > overwhelmed by work to validate the suggested lines. I have tried to tidy > up the direct family line by making corrections and appropriate > connections, > but clearly there is an opportunity here to break down brick walls as you > work. > > My family has also made the decision to place our family history on > WikiTree. WikiTree has the advantage over LDS in that it also records > genetic genealogy results, giving the opportunity to track ancestors by > both > paper trails and genes. There are controls to stop duplicates and there is > also a code of conduct to which participants must subscribe. > > Regards > > > > > John > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- Scott W. Phillips Genealogical Historian Onward To Our Past 3324 LaSalle Trail Duneland Beach, Indiana 46360 Phone (312) 718-1769 *Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OnwardToOurPast <http://www.facebook.com/OnwardToOurPast>* *Website: http://OnwardToOurPast.com <http://OnwardToOurPast.com>* *Twitter: @OnwardToOurPast*

Hi Scot, Would you be good enough to please send me a link (off-list) to the information to which you are referring. I am the administrator for the Kent OPC Project and need to stay on top of changes to privacy rights, etc. in the EU. Your two cents just may be valuable. Thanks. Sincerely, Susan D. Young County Administrator, Kent OPC Project St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada www.kent-opc.org http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kent-Online-Parish-Clerks/88157182954 http://twitter.com/KentOPC