Take heart..... AF will someday soon be blended into a new database, (making the need to keep AF go away) and in that new system we should be able to make corrections to the data that was originally in AF. > > From: aderynyto@shaw.ca > Date: 2005/05/26 Thu PM 03:32:48 EDT > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PAF-5] PRF/was No Source Information given in IGI > > > > Richard Rands wrote: > > Hi folks, > > As the primary author of the book, Family History Documentation > > Guidelines, it is one of my main frustrations to encounter information > > that is undocumented and/or incorrect. I spend a lot of time trying to > > teach people to do good documentation. I bill myself as a documentation > > evangelist. So I think I can understand the feelings about bad > > information that has been expressed in this thread. > > > > However, it seems to me that we should consider the fact that if people > > did not make any information available until it is proven to be 100% > > correct, we probably would not have nearly as many clues, leads, places > > to start, or hunches to go on as we do by having the volumes of data > > available to us.......... > > Hi all: > > I take heart from Richard's comments. Some time ago, and after several > years of research, I submitted my family details to the Ancestral File. > It has proved very profitable as a number of people have contacted me > and exchanged information. > > However, it is no longer possible to correct the Ancestral File. I now > know that there are a number of errors in what I submitted, most of them > minor, and lots of new information and better sources that I did not > have when I originally submitted. > > This is frustrating to me as I sometimes have to explain to contacts > that the information has changed and they reply that they saw it on the > AF (implying that it must be true). > > Jean Gilson > Winnipeg, Canada > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.16 - Release Date: 24/05/05 > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service > http://www.familysearch.org/ > >