SOMEHOW, (I don't have the answer as to how to actually achieve it), we have to convince the members & general public that a beloved family member's work is NOT on the same level of accuracy as a direct revelation from God, and that there has only been one person who ever walked the earth that DID NOT make a mistake, and He isn't the one who did their genealogy. The rest of us occasionally make mistakes because there are often more than one person with the name we are searching for in the same community, and as one of my ancestors did--was born within the year of another cousin, had the same given name (no middle names or initials recorded anywhere to help differentiate the two), had the same father's name, lived in the same parish in Scotland, immigrated to Canada the same year to the same village in New Brunswick. Is it any wonder that for awhile I followed the wrong Mary, after talking to a cousin that I found up there who insisted that he knew the right one (but was wrong). I am actually related to both Mary's, but only one is my gr-gr-grandmother. I have known many who think that their genealogy is perfect, despite the fact that if you look at the records of 10 different cousins, some of the people on those sheets have ten different birth dates & 9 different birth places, just as a for instance. Obviously, they can't all be right! If we find a mistake, whether we made it or somebody else made it--FIX IT, document the correct information and move on. It's always possible that as we do this, we may find a child that was inadvertently left out, or a child that left the church as an adult who has lotss of descendants needing temple work that we could possibly do without even beginning to touch the time period that we have to get permission to do it. Some of the messes in my very distant ancestry I havent touched because I don't think the records I've found are very reliable, even though I can see that what's up on Family Tree can't be right either...so I work with what I know I can find, until FT's glitches get worked out and then maybe I will try to sort some of those out. Karen On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:50 PM, W David Samuelsen <dsam52@sampubco.com>wrote: > Actually this was long before there was nFS, even before Ancestral File. > I see a lot of assumptions in the records long before 1983. > > Only in nFS, this was brought to light. > > David > > On 5/31/2013 11:07 AM, JCBrooks@aol.com wrote: > > I really don't understand how the data got so convoluted during a move. > I > > knew about some families that had been "tampered" with by (thinking of a > > nice word, not moron or idiot) unknowledgable individuals:-) > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Finding ancestors is like eating potato chips--you can't stop with just one!