Totally wrong information about my genealogy (Pierre RICHARD; claupirichard@gmail.com))

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Pierre Richard said: You are continually and TOTALLY wrong about my genealogy. So please stop sending me some TOTALLY wrong ancestors. It just shows that you are completely in the ditch.
Being silent would greatly make things better in your case. I am on Geneanet and have thousands of family related. but as far as Family Search is concerned, ALL information, without exceptions, are TOTALLY WRONG. So please don't insist, it just makes your case worse.
Pierre RICHARD
With nothing against you but your incompetence in this matter.
I really hope you take this in account in order to rework it in the right direction.

Searching is fine, admitting we failed is admirable, but resilience is what is expected of us.

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: First, welcome to the community-powered public feedback forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We all share an active interest in using the resources of this site and as users, we have various levels of knowledge and experience and do our best to help each other with concerns, issues, and/or questions.

You are likely dealing with the massive tree on FamilySearch. The information recorded in the tree is provided by people who use the site, not FamilySearch. The following may help you better understand the nature of the tree.

Introducing FamilySearch Family Tree

FamilySearch FamilyTree is a single tree that is a collaborative effort, built around an open-edit model, allowing any person, including yourself to add to and make changes on any person who lived throughout history, including all of our deceased relatives.

There is no "my tree" in FamilySearch FamilyTree — it is a tree for all mankind. If you have found errors, you need to know why those errors are there. It could be that someone incorrectly combined another person's record with your relative. It could be that someone found a source that they thought applied to your relative, but it did not. It could be that someone just knew that their information was correct and entered that.

There are sites that support independent trees and building them. FamilySearch is not one of those sites.

If you are unfamiliar with how to work with the massive tree (now containing over 1.2 Billion persons), The Family History Guide (http://thefhguide.com/) is an approved training resource. It not only contains procedures for working with the site and the massive tree, but also exercises for you to use.

As to the incorrect information -- Those who make changes usually believe they are related to the person for which they are making changes. Their changes may be valid, invalid, or contain errors and may lack support from primary and secondary source material. Or the changes may be based on misinformation, or information that was copied from an unreliable source.

By looking at the information that was provided, you can click on the event/fact and discover when the information was contributed and by whom.

There is a change log associated on the details page of the person. By clicking See All, you will be able to see all changes that have been made to the person's record since the information was first imported into the tree (likely around 2012) from previous systems used by FamilySearch and its predecessor, the Genealogical Society of Utah.

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Juli said: Pierre, a suggestion: go to the top of this page and click your user name, then choose Settings. On the Settings page, click on Notifications (middle of the top bar). Uncheck all of the boxes there. This will stop all emails from FamilySearch.

LegacyUser

Ronald Tilby said: If you wish to stop receiving emails from FamilySearch.org you can:
Login to FamilySearch.org
go to Settings > Notifications
and select "Unsubscribe All Messages"

LegacyUser

Pierre Richard said: My aim was not mainly on stop receiving messages from Family Search, but rather to find a new way for Family Search to send information that could be scarce but right instead of immense but wrong. I think that it alters your image and credibility as an organisation on the subject of genealogy. But maybe your are more interested in having huge number instead of real facts.

I hope I am wrong and that there are people in your organization that really want a better picture of the past in order to give them a truer version of the future.

Friendly yours

Pierre RICHARD
claupirichard@gmail.com

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A van Helsdingen said: The only information on the FS website that was published by FS are historical records- censuses, vital records, newspapers etc. These are original records. It is the job of the genealogist to reconcile differences and contradictions between records. Sometimes family stories end up being proved incorrect.

The FamilySearch FamilyTree (FSFT) is open-edit- anyone can edit. Nothing on it was contributed by FS. If you see a mistake, you can correct it, but please make sure to provide sources for every fact you contribute.

If you see vandalism or highly incompetent users on the FSFT, first try and communicate with them with the tools FS makes available (we can help if you need more details on how to use these), and if this doesn't work you can contact FS and report the person.