What you say applies to any family trees you find on the internet, whether it's LDS, rootsweb, or whatever. There are a lot of people out there who "datamine"; don't do any actual research, just gather whatever they can find from others on the internet and call the result their own creation. Sam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe & Erin Hartman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] LDS Church > I've been reading these posts about the LDS curch and trips to Salt Lake > City, and I have two cousins that are Mormons and live in that area. > > A bit of a warning here: I hope you all realize that they do not verify > any of the info in their database. I've checked some of the data that > they have on my ancestors, and they are dead wrong on portions of it. > Keep in mind that they accept info from just about anyone, knowledgeable > family source or not, so if "Great-Uncle Bill" was a horse thief and the > older family members tried to cover it up, Uncle Bill might not be in > the database. Or if a female family member gave birth to a child out of > wedlock, the older submitters many times changed birth or marriage dates > to make it seem legitimate before submitting to the LDS database. > > My cousins quite often send messages to me asking if I have any info on > certain members of the family. Their religious zeal to get every > possible person into their database often times takes precedent over > accuracy. > > Joe Hartman > > ========================= > > Erin White wrote: > >>There is an LDS (Mormon) Church on John Drive in Oakland, of which I am a member. However, there is no Family History >>Center there. The closest family history centers to Garrett County are in at the LDS chapel in Allegany County on Long >>Drive in LaVale. There is also one in Morgantown. I will gladly provide the names and phone numbers of the family >>history consultants. Please contact me off-list at [email protected] I lived in Utah for ten years and >>researched both at the Family History Library at Brigham Young University and the collection in Salt Lake. >> __________________________________________________ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>http://mail.yahoo.com >>====================================== >>Looking for your Garrett County ancestors? Make sure to visit us on the web at: >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdgarret/index.html >>------------------------------------ >>If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Sonny O'Haver, [email protected] >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> > > ====================================== > Looking for your Garrett County ancestors? Make sure to visit us on the web at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdgarret/index.html > ------------------------------------ > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Sonny O'Haver, [email protected] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >