How do I know if "View Relationship" is accurate?
I can print "Temple Ready" cards for many individuals who I do not know. When I select "View Relationship" it will show me a tree of how I am related. How are these connections made and how do I know they are accurate? If I print the card and do an ordinance, can I be assured they are actually related to me?
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Mark
I am just another 'lowly' User/Patron ...
In passing ...
The "View My Relationship", in 'Family Tree", of 'FamilySearch', is a "Relationship" (or, "Connection"), that actually EXISTS, in your "Ancestral" Lines, between, YOU; and, the Other Individual/Person, in 'Family Tree", of 'FamilySearch'.
As such ...
IF, your "Ancestral" Lines (ie. the actual "Connections"/'"Links"), are CORRECT (or, I should say; as, correct as they can be), in 'Family Tree", of 'FamilySearch'; THEN, that "View My Relationship" can be considered as reasonably accurate as possible; but, certainly NOTHING is "Perfect"; and, really needs to be supported with "Documentation" and "Sources".
Something that has been oft proffered, in this 'Feedback' Forum, over the Years.
As the saying goes ...
"... Genealogy WITHOUT Documentation is Mythology ..."
But ...
That Said ...
We DO NOT live in a PERFECT World ...
We ALL make MISTAKES ...
NONE of us are PREFECT ...
We are ALL, just TRYING to get, our "Ancestral" Lines; as, GOOD as they CAN be ...
There are EVEN People TOADY; whose, BIRTH; MARRIAGE; &/or, DEATH, is NOT "Officially" Recorded.
So , sometimes, that "Documentation"; and, those "Sources", can be somewhat quite elusive ...
Just my thoughts.
Brett
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FYI
LATER, Related 'Comment', in an OLD post ...
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I can print "Temple Ready" cards for many individuals who I do not know. When I select "View Relationship" it will show me a tree of how I am related. How are these connections made and how do I know they are accurate.
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Brett
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