I don't think anyone is disagreeing about the quality of information for many trees on Ancestry.com and other web sites. The topic being discussed is whether the information can be easily downloaded from current Ancestry.com Public trees. Quality of the information is not something that Ancestry.com can control or govern. The ease of downloading the information has changed and is being addressed because users have complained about their information being downloaded in a wholesale fashion. BJ On 10/13/2011 8:41 AM, Tony Knight wrote: > I have to concur with what Nivard says. > > Not only do you have marriages of people to spouses born a 100 years or more > earlier than them (have a look at Mary Theresa Wherritt daughter of Millard > and Mary for instance) , but you have sources attached which do not relate > to the fact set out, or even record different information. > > Particularly noticeable in my area of interest, are English place names > which have become associated with places in the US and France. And don't > get me started on people who believe the USA is a pre Mayflower and in some > instances pre-Columbian creation. There is a danger PMTs are descending to > the quality level of the IGI >

You can download faster than single individuals unless things have changed recently. Merge one person and in the same action you get spouse and children offered. After a few clicks you can move on to add the spouse/children of the children. Not as smooth as gedcoms, but they are generally bloated with sanitised individuals whom you see far more easily when merging PMTs. Tony -----Original Message----- From: BJ Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 5:03 PM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] FTM 2012 People/Family Index I don't think anyone is disagreeing about the quality of information for many trees on Ancestry.com and other web sites. The topic being discussed is whether the information can be easily downloaded from current Ancestry.com Public trees. Quality of the information is not something that Ancestry.com can control or govern. The ease of downloading the information has changed and is being addressed because users have complained about their information being downloaded in a wholesale fashion. BJ On 10/13/2011 8:41 AM, Tony Knight wrote: > I have to concur with what Nivard says. > > Not only do you have marriages of people to spouses born a 100 years or > more > earlier than them (have a look at Mary Theresa Wherritt daughter of > Millard > and Mary for instance) , but you have sources attached which do not relate > to the fact set out, or even record different information. > > Particularly noticeable in my area of interest, are English place names > which have become associated with places in the US and France. And don't > get me started on people who believe the USA is a pre Mayflower and in > some > instances pre-Columbian creation. There is a danger PMTs are descending to > the quality level of the IGI > ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Online Support for Family Tree Maker Version 16 and earlier http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ Version 2008 - 2011 http://ftm.custhelp.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message