I am sorry to have stirred up feelings about the LDS. All I was attempting to do was to make Listers aware that there are errors and that one should not take the data posted as the truth, unless they check it out. Also that it is almost impossible to get data deleted and replaced with correct entries without a lot of bother and even then both versions will still be displayed. As I am member of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists, we are exhorted to check all sources to ensure they are accurate. We also do a lot of collecting of cemetery transcripts (with photos) and school records. These are put on CD's or merged with local records for public use. This is done in our own time and mostly at our own cost. Sure, the LDS is a great source of genealogical data, but please check the entries you are looking at by using primary sources if you can, or putting a note in your documents that the data is, to use an old Scottish term 'unproven'. Especially before posting it on the Net. I leave you with a small quote, " To err is human, to really foul up, use a computer". Celia.

Celia, don't feel so bad the LDS Church tells everyone them selves to not rely on IGI or Ancestral File, but to try and do the work where possible themselves. They know the info is sometimes incorrect and often false. I have found this out myself. And I'm a member of the church. ----- Original Message ----- From: "celiageary" <celia_geary@infogen.net.nz> To: <SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 1:22 AM Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] LDS errors. >I am sorry to have stirred up feelings about the LDS. All I was attempting >to do was to make Listers aware that there are errors and that one should >not take the data posted as the truth, unless they check it out. Also that >it is almost impossible to get data deleted and replaced with correct >entries without a lot of bother and even then both versions will still be >displayed. As I am member of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists, we >are exhorted to check all sources to ensure they are accurate. We also do a >lot of collecting of cemetery transcripts (with photos) and school records. >These are put on CD's or merged with local records for public use. This >is done in our own time and mostly at our own cost. > Sure, the LDS is a great source of genealogical data, but please check > the entries you are looking at by using primary sources if you can, or > putting a note in your documents that the data is, to use an old Scottish > term 'unproven'. Especially before posting it on the Net. > I leave you with a small quote, " To err is human, to really foul up, > use a computer". Celia. > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > To find Vital Statistics for islay from the earliest records to 1875 > visit: > HTTP://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~tlarson/bdm/ > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/403 - Release Date: 7/28/2006 > >

Just to let you know, Celia, that you're 100% correct about the LDS records. They contain errors - they're like the U.S. Social Security records: some people are simply not recorded for whatever reason or whatever mistake that was originally made, e.g., my grandfather's name is not in the Social Security Index, why? no one knows. He died in 1988 and worked his entire adult life here in the U.S. Best wishes, Nancy Hoites in Whittier, Callifornia celiageary <celia_geary@infogen.net.nz> wrote: I am sorry to have stirred up feelings about the LDS. All I was attempting to do was to make Listers aware that there are errors and that one should not take the data posted as the truth, unless they check it out. Also that it is almost impossible to get data deleted and replaced with correct entries without a lot of bother and even then both versions will still be displayed. As I am member of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists, we are exhorted to check all sources to ensure they are accurate. We also do a lot of collecting of cemetery transcripts (with photos) and school records. These are put on CD's or merged with local records for public use. This is done in our own time and mostly at our own cost. Sure, the LDS is a great source of genealogical data, but please check the entries you are looking at by using primary sources if you can, or putting a note in your documents that the data is, to use an old Scottish term 'unproven'. Especially before posting it on the Net. I leave you with a small quote, " To err is human, to really foul up, use a computer". Celia. ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== To find Vital Statistics for islay from the earliest records to 1875 visit: HTTP://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~tlarson/bdm/ Nancy Hoites Whittier, California