John, I'm sorry you have had an unsatisfactory experience with the Family Group Sheets. I've had so many positive responses toward them that I wanted to take this opportunity to explain more about the process. When someone submits a Family Group Sheet (or ANY data for that matter that as been created by an individual), this is merely their view point. While it may be inaccurate in your opinion, it is their submission, and we honor it as such. Regrettably, we don't feel we have the expertise to "go into" their materials and make corrections. We'd probably really make a mess of things when we don't even know the family at all. The best thing you could do in this instance, is to submit your own version of the family--- provide documentation to support your listings----and then let individuals decide for themselves when they visit the Family Group Sheets. Also you might want to work directly with the "submitter" and share your thoughts. Working together perhaps the submitter then would want to "resubmit" the material with changes that you have suggested. Either way, it would be very beneficial for the two of you to work together. In genealogy, I have found very little absolute proof on anything! We take the best evidence we can find, and then make a "theory". When anything later comes along to prove it, then we're usually delighted to be proven wrong! The GAGenWeb Archives contain actual data (deeds, wills, court minutes etc), but even those have been in error. I have a marriage record from a courthouse in which my ancestors name was spelled with the beginning letter of G instead of R !! Took some real looking to find this. Since anything we put on-line is transcribed, keep in mind that handwriting may have been misinterpreted....and usually submitter welcome your input and corrections. But again...this correction needs to come to us from the one who submitted (and trusted) the materials to us. I guess what I'm saying is that many records (even those from the court house) may contain errors due to clerk's copying it; misinformation in the first place, etc. The Family History pages (LDS) have this very same problem. Haven't you encountered data on their pages that you think are not accurate. Those submissions are only as good as the submitter. This is why it is so helpful when we do submit information that we do our very, very best to give some supporting documentation. At any rate, I think it is much better to get some "clues" on line than nothing at all. Nobody should believe everything they read in a book, on-line, or hear without also using their own knowledge and experience to evaluate it. Please feel free to correspond with me personally should you have other questions or concerns. Source: GATWIGGS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GATWIGGS] Family Group Sheets Since someone on the TWIGGS list brought up this website: Several weeks ago when I first visited the archives of the Family Group List I found quite a bit of the stuff in the archives of that list to incorrect. When I noticed this fact I informed the person who is the List Owner of that website, privately, of what I had found in error. I was later to find out this person, who lives in TX, also was the list owner of the Richmond County, GA mailing list. I will not bother to post her response to my private comment to her nor the attitude she subsequently displayed towards me but needless to say I "unsubed" from her RICHMOND County, GA mailing list shortly afterwards. I was subsequently very glad of that fact because she quickly informed me that if I had not -- she would have kicked me off of that mailing list. The reason I questioned this material in the first place was because it was my family. However, most of all, it was material on my 3rd GGF that was in error. I have only had the displeasure to deal with one other list owner, like this, in all of my years of genealogical research and this person was a list owner of a county up in NC. Hopefully, there will be no others but if there are -- I will unsub from their mailing list just as quickly as I did hers. The sad part about it was -- this persons wasn't hurting me at all. She was hurting the subscribers to the Richmond County, GA website - maybe all 20 of them <grin>. Virginia Crilley GAGenWeb Archives, State Manager