How to stop GEDCOM contributions to a Utah Pioneer Family
When I see GEDCOM in the reason box, I know it is usually going to be a bad experience. Recently, Ordinances Ready was pulling up people in our pioneer family instead of the Danish names my husband and I have submitted. Looking closer, these names were children born after the mother's death, husbands that were contemporaries, but the the correct husband, additional wives that were having children at the same time as the first wife.
Twice I reached out to Lorianneries1 to explain she needed to stop because it takes time to correct these error in lines that have already been carefully researched. I personally researched the 7 Ane Larsens married to the 5 Christian Christiansens in Vejle Denmark adding sources. This is Lorianneries1 reply:
"Hello. please let me explain what I am doing. It is a large undertaking. My grandmother and mother have been working on our family history for as long as I can remember. My mother is past the ability to continue. But I know its been researched. I've been given a thumb disk with the entire history which she had on Roots magic. I downloaded the work into Family Search, over 9,000 names and it listed all the information and I added them one by one. I've been doing this work since last February. It's been alot. I have only merged when I am absolutely certain they are the same person. Sometimes they are the same person, but with a different wife and children. I do not merge these. Once I have all these on our personal family tree, I can research certificates and such. Right now I am just getting them on the tree for a base. It's so nice when others working on my family come forward, the puzzle comes together nicely."
FamilySearch, please remove the option to upload a GEDCOM and sync it. The individuals doing this are not looking at sources, they are not doing research, but as stated above, using their Grandmother's Roots Magic. Lorianneries1 is messing up 9,000 names in the Family Tree, without a clue of the duplicate baptisms, endowments and sealings she is creating.
When I went to bed at midnight, after 5 hours of cleaning up after others, I felt discouraged and angry with FamilySearch for letting such an individual do so much damage, quickly, and carelessly.
Answers
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Hi - You will be thrilled to know that it is no longer possible to transfer a GEDCOM file to the FamilySearch public tree. GEDCOM files can still be loaded but they become a private, editable tree. Below is a link to the overall description of this feature. Just be aware that there may still be some previously loaded GEDCOM files that are still being added to the public tree.
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