Thank you, very, very good. Ann P. -----Original Message----- From: OmahaMom@aol.com <OmahaMom@aol.com> To: TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com <TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 1:28 PM Subject: Re: DAR and LDS Online >With LDS Ancestral File, IGI, etc. as with FTM and other databases that are >submitted by human beings, there's always a chance of error. This is >particularly true of family pedigrees contributed by individuals who are less >meticulous in their search for accuracy. Things of this nature should be >regarded as clues, however, until the sources are checked personally, and >documented. > >Even those who are meticulous in their research, it isn't unheard of to >occasionally make a mistake (human nature being what it is.) The thing then >is to fix it and move on. > >Apparently LDS is getting ready to put Ancestral File on-line for everyone to >use from home, possibly as early as May, if all goes without hitch [does it >ever?]. (This is a very different thing from some of the other rumors of >digitizing ALL the microfilms that they have available and putting them on- >line. The likelihood of that happening is probably much less, particularly >since there are a great many microfilms that are restricted in nature as to >what circulation they can make available to potential patrons.) And while a >great many of us can't afford regular pilgrimages to either the ancestral home >to search for records, or to Salt Lake where microfilm copies of many of those >same records are kept available for use, using the facilities of the LDS FHC >for access to copies of the original records can't be encouraged enough. It's >the next best thing to being there. Certainly looking at a microfilm of the >original is better than trusting a transcriber of a book to be 100% accurate >(always subject to human accuracy, interpretation of handwriting, familiarity >with names, etc.) > >Bottom line simply has to be, if it isn't the original source, or >microfilm/xerox copy of same, use it as a clue, and verify, verify, verify. >Anything less and we risk repeating someone else's mistakes. > >Karen > > >==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== >If you live in Union County why not pitch in. Take a day and write down the tombstones in the nearest cemetery. Send it to us for others to use. You could be helping a cousin. Go to the courthouse and copy some early marriage records. Anything helps. > >