I agree with Gay. That's why I am waiting a little long until they pronounce this thing "done" to make the monumental efforts to fix everything that was messed up during the move. In the meanwhile, I'm concentrating on research for myself and others to extend lines and move temple work forward. It's all worthy effort.. 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 :-) Michele In a message dated 5/31/2013 9:59:52 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, grdavis@centurytel.net writes: I was working on NFS yesterday and will start working from now on with Family Tree to straighten out the line I worked with yesterday. I was aghast to find on a Richards line, which I thought was in good order, that a person had gone in and entered death and burial dates of 2012 for people born in the 1700's. In addition, new lines have been brought in by adding people that don't really belong in a particular family. Some of the entries now have couples as their own parents, e.g., John and Sally are the couple and John and Sally are the parents also (same people). It is discouraging to put in so many hours with well researched data and then have it all convoluted It will take many hours to try and straighten this out if it is even possible. I am afraid this will be a perpetual problem. Gay Davis ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary S. Scott (Michigan) To: lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 9:13 AM Subject: [LDS-WC] Cleaning up on Family Tree David's point about cleaning up our family lines on Family Tree is right on target. The other day I was working on Family Tree and looking at some of my husband's families, particularly the Tanner families from Payson, Utah. Earlier that day I had read an LDS biographical sketch about a sister in a newly published book. The sister's husband had married several women before the Manifesto. They lived in some of the areas where my husband's family had lived. One of his daughters married a man with the surname of Tanner. I went on Family Tree and wanted to see how this daughter was related to my husband. As I looked at the records for the various Tanner branches, I was amazed at the inconsistencies and inaccuracies which are there. For instance, the information about John Tanner (the early convert to the Church who gave a substantial amount of money for the Kirkland Temple to Joseph Smith) needed immediate attention. (John Tanner never lived in Payson but his third wife and many of his children did.) John Tanner's mother was Thankful Tefft but Family Tree had Thankful also as the wife of John. (Terrible error and not one to let carry down to people who might not know the difference. It needed to be corrected immediately and appropriate explanations added.) The family relationships were certainly in need of careful examination and correction. With my husband's approval, I started the process of correcting these relationships. As I told my husband, we will need to look at every one of his family lines because there are probably changes which need to be made for many family members. My husband isn't that keen on family history but if we don't do these changes who will? If not now, when? Are we going to wait for our children and unborn grandchildren to be interested? It might not happen. I think now is the time and it is a task which we can do while we are able to do so. As I used to tell my family history classes, we can work on one family at a time. Straighten it out, add sources and notes, check ordinances, merge if necessary, etc. We don't have to attack the entire tree but only these smaller twigs in a methodical way. When we feel one family is in order, than we can move to another family. Besides, as we work on Family Tree, we can address issues and offer insights or feedback. Thanks for listening. I learn a lot from each of you. Mary Scott Aurora, Illinois 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 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