Celia, I agree. I submitted a small tree to LDS about 35 years ago, one that was as correct as I could make it at the time. Subsequently I found additional information and a few corrections (including more precise data). I submitted this as well, asking that it replace my earlier submission. A few years later I discovered that they were both on their site. I have submitted nothing else to them in over 30 years, but I still get one or two contacts each year from persons who have found my terribly outdated and partially incorrect material. I am glad when they contact me; but I can only guess at the numbers of persons who harvest my incorrect data and do not contact me so that I can correct it for them. One genealogy software firm (which will remain nameless) even has some of my 35 year old data incorporated into its databank, complete with two minor spelling mistakes I made !! So I know it is my data. And is charging purchasers for the privilege of passing on my data..... So ... I would agree that the LDS should provide a process to permit at least the original submitter to correct/modify/extend his/her data. There also should be a way to have corrections made to data submitted by others. Some of the more egregious errors to be found should be just zapped. Ken Harrison In a message dated 27/07/2006 7:01:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, celia_geary@infogen.net.nz writes: > > I agree with almost everything you said. The LDS through their many > adherents, give genealogists a source from which we can search further and > I really appreciate their magnanimity in sharing the website cost free, but > what frustrates me, is that when I know information posted on the LDS site > is erroneous, there is no way of correcting it. All I am trying to say is > that the LDS should have a feed-back site so that we can correct errors, > otherwise they just go on > being perpetuated ad infinitum. > Our local Council entered all the cemetery records on line so that > genealogists and others could find further info to add to that gained by > reading gravestones, but there were lots of mistakes, mainly due to poor > handwriting in the old days, so they provided an email site so that > researchers could enter corrections for staff to alter the entries and > remove the errors for the future. That is all I am saying that it would be > helpful for the LDS to do. But after being a researching genealogist for > over 30 years, I will reiterate , that Primary sources are the best if you > can access them. There are so many extra little snippets of info on a > primary source. Celia. > >

Hear! Hear!.