Posted by James Tanner on March 12, 2010 at 9:19pm
In my frequent visits to the New FamilySearch Website, I find that one oranother of my many, many relatives has added yet another set of birthdates or death dates to one of my grandfathers, great-grandfathers orgreat-great-grandfathers (or grandmothers). These regular additions tothe existing information in New FamilySearch would not be nearly sodisturbing except that almost uniformly the new entries are inaccurateand incorrect. This constant flow of incorrect additions to theprogram, points out one of the most frustrating aspects of New FamilySearch;the lack of an efficient way to correct data submitted by others and tocommunicate the correct information. You can, of course, correct anymistakes in the data you entered yourself, but information submitted byother users is locked and can only be changed by convincing yourrelatives to do the correcting themselves. In my family, some of theindividuals have nearly 300 separate submissions and dozens ofvariations in names, dates and places. Even thinking about correctingthis mess is overwhelming. Read more...
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