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