Wrongly attributed "Pioneer Oversees journey" email alert
I recently received an email from FamilySearch alerting me to an "pioneer" ancestor who had crossed the ocean to come to America. My ancestor, Carl Edvin Carlsson, LV6J-FCC, was never a member of the church. Yet he's being connected to a Carl E. Carlson in a database called "Saints by Sea, Latter Day Saint Immigration to America." My ancestor, Carl, did immigrate to America. However, my research shows that he came in 1909, and was already showing up in the 1910 Census in Colorado - highly unlikely then that the Carl E Carlson, who traveled to Montreal on Oct 22 1910 was the same person. I don't know the name of the ship that my Carl traveled on, but if he was traveling to Colorado, it's unlikely that he went to Montreal Canada.
It is nice that FamilySearch is trying to give us information about our ancestors, but if you're going to bother to do it, please make sure the information is correct.
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I received an alert that my "Ancestor" came to America for religious freedom. This person is actually my uncle who was born in Springville, Utah and the only time he received a passport was probably his LDS mission. The researchers of programmers should check more that a passport of whatever they are using for this information and check their results. My Uncle Byron Mendenhall KWCC-P6G
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I have a similar situation in that I received a "Pioneer Relative" notification last year during the Pioneer Day campaign, only to find out that my relative had been badly merged with the actual pioneer. I corrected the bad merge, entered sources for both to distinguish them, and even put a note in the Life Sketch stating that this person (LHDW-Y93) "is not the LDS pioneer girl. They were incorrectly merged. Please see https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZD7-KZB." And yet this year, again, I received the same notification for the same individual. Aren't these campaigns updated at all to reflect corrections in the tree?
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