nFS: New Family Search and Evidence Hierarchy in Combining Names Why not make the nFS system do an evidence hierarchy? For each data entry, there is the "best" source record, then the next best and so on. If the system operated with a sequential presentation of formats listing the most primary record available for any given event; also, added thereto a computer system search to attach that given evidence to any indexed reproduced online original record sources, (as well as the ability to recheck these databases over time), the whole Temple Ordinance Work record system would consistently become fully acceptable, as well as train submitters in correct record keeping. Temple Ordinance Work would remain in effect, from oral tradition to original document, with the printout giving information from the most primary record. Automatically, the record system could become self correcting, whenever any name or identity was matched within the series of various references, by producing in the end, the name, dates and places noted from the most original "best" primary sources; attaching thereto the dates and the duplicates of Temple Ordinance Work done over time. This would stop, once and for all, excessive errors and weed out all entries submitted from fictitious data records, made up by individuals trying to corrupt the database, or by unintentional neglect or ignorance. I also agree that it takes human reasoning. Modify the process developed for Name Extraction Programs. . . . "To ensure accuracy, two transcriptions of each entry are made and compared to find and resolve discrepancies." http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/family_history/name_eom.htm To ensure accuracy, "highlighted" information should be provided in summary format to compare and contrast submitted reference evidence discrepancies, (similar to a Norton Internet Security full system scan): I. list of total field items scanned; II. error "risks" that were detected; III. "attention required" tab: (a) requiring attention, and (b) resolved. Some problems are easily cleared up by novice submitters, while others may jeopardize the record file, with attached personal temple ordinance work. (c) Evidence Hierarchy is mandatory because: "Whenever the evidence hierarchy is altered, submissions are automatically reviewed by professional staff personnel at Church headquarters to validate the assumptions made are in accordance with professional genealogical standards, before inclusion within the Master Database." The process suggested is equivalent to an LDS Temple Ordinance Work "TITLE SEARCH". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_search Life Browser to include: ALL OF THE ABOVE, and: (1) Record of all those "who consecrate properties, and receive inheritances legally from the bishop". (2) Link reference to members, "their manner of life, their faith, and works" (Individual and Family Biographies). (3) Record of the apostates who apostatize after receiving their inheritances. Church Court link to Priesthood actions, "whose names are not found written in the book of the law, or that are found to have apostatized, or to have been cut off from the church, as well as the lesser priesthood, or the members" . . . (4) Records received from beyond the veil. This will require, in my own opinion, the restoration of the Office of Church Patriarch, within the family of Hyrum Smith, to oversee and expand the full family history record program, from Adam on down to the last person to live upon this earth, in a mortal state. The office of Stake Patriarch would provide the worldwide church channels from which The House of Israel could be brought down to the present generation, within the local jurisdiction of the Stake Presidencies of the Church, by revelation, to worthy Temple recommend holders. http://www.josephsmithsr.org/documents/newspaper/sltrib_20061230.pdf Respectfully yours, Tom Tinney, Sr. Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004 Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions] http://www.academic-genealogy.com/ Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory