I have the same problem.. Dates in the 1700's, Jan/Feb Mar should usually be double in English speaking countries, but never in Catholic countries, French "dit" names provide alternate surnames up until modern times. The "right" one is which ever one you happen to like better. Baptism names replaced by Family names on marriage records, and sometimes, her maiden name WAS the same as her married name...Children in the same family spelling their surnames differently.. Great grandpa born Alfred, "became" Frederick, died Frederick Ellis, all with three different last names, just a matter of time till some "corrects" some or all of that..If we had sources, and required them, perhaps correct would take on a new meaning..I am though, too old to re source all 19,000 people in my file, I'll be lucky to get them all synchronized once in nFS, and then that once will have to rehappen forever to keep up with updates..Ok, I'll go back to another 3 or 4 hours of syncing, night all.. -----Original Message----- From: lds-ward-consultant-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lds-ward-consultant-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sahara346@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:22 PM To: lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Disputes I have reservations about "correct" / "incorrect" information. I know what records I have looked at, and their relative value for historic accuracy. I have seen other people's records that have different dates/places/names & additional children, but whose documentation is not as good/non-existant/or the nebulous "family records", and hence, in my mind, suspect as being incorrect. I would be very upset if someone who comes along and disputes some of my work that is verified by family Bibles, censuses, marriage records, church records, and anything else I can find that has some substance when their only source is a "family record" handed down from a great grandfather (who may have known or may have guessed.) Some people are very protective of their fairy tale genealogies and assume that theirs is right, no matter what kinds of documentary proof you provide. <snip>

Thank you all for the information on disputes.. I have learned a lot and will verify one of the things I have learned here.. A distant relative told me to fix a dispute she created on my original record.. thanks to you, I now understand I do not have to dispute her dispute. FYI At the Family History Library two weeks ago, a young Elder told me about the work on digitizing the microfilm. He probably broke a rule and showed me an internal status report on it too... They are creating gigabytes of new data daily, and despite a server at the Church Office Building catching fire a few weeks ago .. the big hang up is the lack of a viewer for all of us to look at the unindexed images. Somehow the problems on restricted microfilms has been solved (you may know in Spain, Germany and other countries .. non LDS are not allowed to look at the microfilm without owner's permission The data is now on an internal server on ldschurch.org, Oh that it could be made public! Alan W