> ... primary objective of building a database to connect GRO references with marriage locations Is this true? -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Peter Alefounder via Sent: 09 January 2015 12:13 To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] Guild Marriage Index Paul Millington said: > Peter Alefounder wrote: > > ""The GMI was not intended to be a store of members' data." > > As one of the original proposers of the index, I can tell you very definitely it was. I would regard that as an incidental benefit of the GMI. It is not mentioned on the Guild Marriage Index introductory page (http://www.one-name.org/members/GMI/gmi.html), and in any case is not really compatible with the error correction and data additions that have been made to fulfil the primary objective of building a database to connect GRO references with marriage locations. Marriages within the scope of the GMI would form only a fraction of the information collected by Guild members. Use of other Guild projects intended for the purpose would be a far better option for those wanting to preserve their ONS data. Peter Alefounder. _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message