Away with the disputes in New FamilySearch

When New FamilySearch was introduced to Mesa, Arizona back in October of2007, one of the first things we all did was to use the disputefunction to tell the world we disagreed with their inaccurate or wronginformation in the file. I literally spent hours and hours searchingthrough the files, disputing all of the wrongly included children,incorrect marriages and other issues. Over time, it became apparent thatthe program had no real way to make corrections. Eventually, we learnedthat disputing a person or a fact, locked that individual so that noone could make a change.

To make a long story shorter, I began the process of removing all of mydisputes for a number of reasons. Those reasons included all of theangry E-mails I kept getting from other users of the program. Once Ifigured out that putting in correct information merely duplicated whatwas there and did not provide any way to make changes to the incorrectinformation, I started to get rid of my disputes. Unfortunately, I thinkI may still have a few hiding out there in the far reaches of my familytree. Finally, we got some guidance from FamilySearch about limitingthe use of disputes to certain types of problems, such as when anindividual was identified with the wrong gender.

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