Betty Stokes wrote: > In searching FamilySearch (LDS website), I find mistakes in some of my families. I have documentation to prove the corrections. I read over the ways to submit corrections, but most use PAF or go to the LDS local library. > > Can these corrections be prepared and sent using Family Origins? If so, what are the requirements? =========== Betty, I will assume that the reocrds you are speaking of are in the Ancestral File program. If so, the accuracy of any records there is the responsibility of the person who submitts them, and no doubt they contain their share of mistakes. You can submit your records and they will be included in the Ancestral File program also, but the LDS Church will not "correct" the others, because they give equal credibility to all information submitted. Records can be submitted to Ancestral File on a 3 1/2 inch floppy in a GEDCOM format made by most any genealogy program. Jim

If the mistakes are in the IGI, it is harder to correct -- in fact, near impossible. If the mistakes are in the Ancestral File or Pedigree Resource File you can make corrections by submitting corrections or new submissions. The current word is that Ancestral File and Pedigree Resource File will be combined into a new file in the next year or so...or so. Ancestral File will probably not be updated now and it is best to make corrections by submitting to Pedigree Resource File by GEDCOM uploaded through familysearch.org Just go to the site and check out the details/requirements. http://familysearch.org/Eng/Share/Preserve/frameset_preserve.asp In Pedigree Resource File you just submit your file and no one can correct or change it, which hasn't been the case with Ancestral File which has become to be known as the "Opinion File". There may be differences in Pedigree Resource File but no one can change what you submit and you cannot change what someone else submits. People can look at various submissions and decide what is right by guess, by your documentation or by research. If you include your documentation (notes and sources) they can look at that. Some people prefer not to include their notes and sources and would rather have people contact them. I'm sure the info there is used in all sorts of ways.......... Trudy Lundy > Betty Stokes wrote: > > > In searching FamilySearch (LDS website), I find mistakes in some of my families. I have documentation to prove the corrections. I read over the ways to submit corrections, but most use PAF or go to the LDS local library. > > > > Can these corrections be prepared and sent using Family Origins? If so, what are the requirements? > > =========== > > Betty, > > I will assume that the reocrds you are speaking of are in the Ancestral File program. If so, the accuracy of any records there is the responsibility of the person who submitts them, and no doubt they contain their share of > mistakes. > > You can submit your records and they will be included in the Ancestral File program also, but the LDS Church will not "correct" the others, because they give equal credibility to all information submitted. Records can be > submitted to Ancestral File on a 3 1/2 inch floppy in a GEDCOM format made by most any genealogy program. > > Jim > > ______________________________