Stop allowing changes
Stop allowing any Tom, Dick, or Harry change my tree. Who has time to double check Every. Single. Change. people make to your line?!? I have had entire lines deleted. Different lines. Multiple times. It takes endless hours to fix. I’m tired of doing it. Over and over.
So I quit. I will enter things on Ancestry and just take random names to the temple.
Family search - stop allowing others mess with any public line. This is ridiculous. I hate family search for this reason alone.
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Cassaronda
Welcome to the "Community.FamilySearch" Forum.
I am just another 'lowly' User/Patron ...
I am sorry to 'hear', your dislike and disapproval, of "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
[ And, like many, I totally understand your, angst; and, frustration ... ]
For starters ...
You are not alone ...
It is very much unfortunate, that MOST new (and, some old) Users/Patrons DO NOT understand the basic 'nature' and 'premise' of "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch', when they join in.
Which is that ...
We do not have our OWN "Tree" in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
We ONLY have "Branches" (ie. Ancestral" lines), that are interconnected, in this SINGLE "One" World "Tree", for all of us, that is "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
"Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' is NOT like 'On-Line' "Websites" (eg. "Ancestry_com"; or "MyHeritage_com"; or, the like); and/or, 'standalone' personal (computer) programmes (eg, the OLD, now no longer supported, "PAF"; or, "Ancestral Quest"; or, the like).
We DO NOT have "Private"/"Personal" 'Trees' in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' like other 'On-Line' "Websites"; and/or, 'standalone' personal (computer) programmes.
We do not even, own; or, manage; and, are NOT even responsible for, the "Deceased" individuals/persons in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
And, most importantly ...
We DO NOT even, own; or, manage; and, are NOT even responsible for, Our OWN "Deceased" Ancestors/Family/Relatives in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
"Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' is built on a "Open Edit" Platform - hence, why any registered User/Patron can "Edit" (ie. Add, Delete; and/or, Change) ANY "Deceased" individual/person in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
That is WHY ...
MANY; Many; many, Users/Patrons, of "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch', STILL maintain, their OWN Personal (and, often, PRIVATE) "Copy", of their "Ancestral" Lines, in the various OTHER, 'On-Line' Websites; and/or, in the many 'Standalone' Databases.
You might say that, "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch', is ONE "Communal" Working Database, that connects/links us together; as opposed to, the Other PERSONAL/PRIVATE Working Databases, that are NOT connected/linked.
It is said, that "Collaboration", is the KEY to the success, to "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch', which it is.
But ...
That Said ...
Unfortunately, "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch':
(1) CAN be time consuming to monitor; especially, in regard to all the 'wayward' CHANGES, made by Other Users/Patrons, that can occur, to one's "Ancestral Lines; and,
(2) THAT "Collaboration", is NOT always 'amicable'; and, DOES NOT always work.
Such, are the pitfalls, of the basic 'nature' and 'premise' of "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch', with working in a SINGLE "One" World "Tree".
As an aside ...
Unfortunately, I would humbly suggest, that the basic 'nature' and 'premise' of "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch', being a SINGLE "One" World "Tree"; and, being built on an "Open Edit" Platform - hence, why any registered User/Patron can "Edit" (ie. Add, Delete; and/or, Change) ANY "Deceased" individual/person, will NOT change.
I am sorry to 'hear' that you will be 'quitting', "Family Tree", of 'FamilySearch'; but, like MANY, I understand.
Good Luck.
Brett
ps: Of course, regardless of the above, you know that you can STILL remain a "Registered" User/Patron of 'FamilySearch'; al least, for searching the available "Records" in 'FamilySearch'.
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