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Old Ordinance Index Status
As lots of users have seen, incorrect merges in FamilyTree continue to corrupt the ordinance data in FamilyTree, such that you cannot no longer trust the ordinance data in FamilyTree. Thus, I went to the Family History Library to look at the old Ordinance Index that was in Special Collections so I could get this person's ordinance data and I found out the Old Ordinance Index is no longer available in the Special Collections Room.
Why is this database no longer available?
Is it being converted to Windows or is this database no longer available?
Is it going to be replaced with a newer database that is not corrupted by FamilyTree users?
It will be sad if it is no longer available. Before Special Collections, this database was available on every computer at the Family History Library.
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I'm not LDS.
An acquaintance who is LDS and a professional genealogist of some standing once wrote about records changed after ordinances (paraphrasing) "Don't worry about it. God knows. All will be right in Heaven."
I know that I have corrected records, for those with ordinances, because cousins had made a same/similar-name assumption.
My 2nd great-grandparents Hughes and their siblings were born in County Louth, Ireland, not Glamorgan, Wales. I have dozens of RECORDS to support.
A cousin, from a branch that converted from Roman Catholic to LDS, had made ordinances based on the assumption that Mary Ann Hughes, daughter of Christopher Hughes and Mary Boyle, born and baptized RC in County Louth in 1860, was Mary Hughes, born 1857, daughter of Dan Hughes and Mary MNU but maybe Rosser, baptized Church of England, in Dowlais, Glamorgan, Wales, in 1860.
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I am a Member of the Church ...
And, I totally agree with you.
We NEED to know.
As, it would certainly be SAD, if that "Collection", was NO LONGER available (ie. Physically; and/or, otherwise).
Brett
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FYI
I called the Family History Library a couple of days ago and the old DOS Ordinance is available again in the Special Collections room.
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But, a gather, such, is NOT available, 'On-Line' ...
I wonder, if such, will EVER, be available, 'On-Line' ...
Brett
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As you know, it used to be available at the FHC and FHL. I do not know what the future will bring. Perhaps, the monitor could tell us.
It would be very useful since the displayed ordinances in Family Tree are not always accurate.
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'Yes' ...
It would be VERY useful, to have such, available, 'On-Line', in 'FamilySearch'.
Even, if such, was ONLY available, to Users/Patrons, who are Members of the Church ...
Brett
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