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When Family Search sends an email about famous relatives can you please have someone in the office double check the tree connections before sending out the email?
It is very annoying to have emails which are untrue.
Family Search is a great website to search for information, however it gives it a bad name if facts are not checked. Equally, it's exciting for people to find that they have famous relatives, however, it's just as disappointing to find out that it is not actually the case because people have not checked the facts.
I think it would be a good idea to have a fact checker. Checking connections between Grandparent, parent and child.
Anybody can assume a connection to be right. But it's the truth we are seeking.
Thank you.
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We users are the only fact checkers that exist. There is no one "in the office" that checks anything in Family Tree and there never will be. Family Tree is ours and we are completely responsible for it's truth or lack there of.
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there are MILLIONS of such records/emails
There is no one "in the office" to do the checking -- and no way staff that do exist could check such items one by one.
Its all up to YOU and ME as users
Establishing the truth is up to you and me and millions of other users - FamilySearch does not play as arbiter or referee of what is truth and what is error.
to a very large degree - FamilySearch Family Tree -- is merely a platform - that allows all of us to build a world family tree -- how good and reliable it is -- is up to all of us users -- and any mistakes in the tree are up to us to fix.
see:
WHY USE FAMILYSEARCH FAMILYTREE
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Yes, it is annoying, But the notification about Mary Tabitha York KW6C-7N7 prompted me me correct a glaring error in her ancestry. Also, she is probably not related to me because their is no evidence that her grandfather married the same Susannah Richardson who is my cousin—a second possible error. But I was pleased to have this opportunity to set things straight.
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