> [Original Message] > > I have to agree with the mistakes found...but they're mostly in the > Ancestral Files. These are files entered by members of the church, in an > effort to make sure their ancestors will be in heaven. . Well, not always. There's an Ancestral file on-line at the LDS site on my paternal great-grandparents that was submitted by a non-Mormon. And this person does not descend from those great-grandparents either. She is their "half-great-grandniece" and so distantly related that she has misspelled my paternal great-grandfather's surname in the files she submitted to the LDS. I might have overlooked the misspelling, it's common among strangers, but there were so many other errors that I finally wrote this person. She admitted that the files were pieced together from stuff other family members had given her and that she had not confirmed any of my great-grandparents' family info since she didn't directly descend from them. I contacted the LDS several years ago to see about getting these files corrected but haven't had any luck so far. I was just told my info would be "preserved". It has never been made available on-line so who knows how they are "preserving" it.. It will be interesting to see how this new on-line service will work and what they will do with the info submitted.. Hmmm?. . Bye for now, Kathleen