tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post2941697687279802461..comments2024-03-26T21:29:07.190-07:00Comments on Rejoice, and be exceeding glad...: Important Discussion about the FamilySearch Family TreeJames Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-53345107366805978502017-08-30T10:45:38.453-07:002017-08-30T10:45:38.453-07:00Thank you!Thank you!clyteegold@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18423792450768344264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-53865998978837901282017-08-30T10:42:45.313-07:002017-08-30T10:42:45.313-07:00Ron Tanner, the Family Tree Product Manager for Fa...Ron Tanner, the Family Tree Product Manager for FamilySearch is encouraging everyone to put the information into the Family Tree for the living also. The information cannot be seen while they are alive, but will "appear" when a death date is entered. I am still considering this, but I have so much information for everyone else, I haven't started putting in my living relatives who are mostly members anyway and have their own pages. James Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-21378989620350068222017-08-30T10:39:24.681-07:002017-08-30T10:39:24.681-07:00I love your blog, and read each post.
I think y...I love your blog, and read each post. <br /><br />I think you are a very thoughtful commentator on FamilySearch. <br /><br />I agree with this post. After using PAF until it became obvious it was no longer supported, then I switched to RootsMagic and have 10,000 names in that database and "did" my genealogy on RootsMagic, adding sources and working out theories ... then would enter people into FamilyTree when I felt the data was ready for prime time.<br /><br />In the last year, with the ease of attaching sources to FamilyTree, I have decided that FamilyTree is pretty much the place to do and keep all my research. I don't enter a "duplicate" in RootsMagic anymore as it is quicker to work in FamilyTree. I'll keep my direct line in RM, but I do a lot of collateral/"cousins" work and I think it is more efficient to put all that out there on FamilyTree. I got so behind on temple work I don't reserve the names either, assuming someone else in desperate need of a green temple icon will find it someday. If I ever got caught up on my reservations, sure, I would reserve some more. <br /><br />I teach in my Family History class in my ward that FamilyTree is the place to put it all, as it is the only place your descendants and others will be able to find in when I'm gone.<br /><br />I have one question though still unresolved in my head. I am a convert to the church of 40 years, and no one else that I am aware of in a very extended family has ever joined the church. Where to keep track of the living extended family in a database that my children can someday access to eventually do the temple work for my aunts, uncles, cousins, cousin's grandchildren? I know the data. If someone dies, I enter it in FamilyTree even though I can't reserve the work - someday someone will when the 110 years are reached. <br /><br />But what about my cousins having grandchildren today? If it's 3 generations of living people/private space in Family Tree, will it be discovered when I die and in 70 years those new babies die? Where do I put my living relatives that they will be found when they die, decades after I do? <br /><br />Thanks, Clytee Gold clyteegold@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18423792450768344264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-77625305581004557002017-08-29T17:15:05.297-07:002017-08-29T17:15:05.297-07:00Although I do see a few complaints about near rela... Although I do see a few complaints about near relatives, my experience is very similar to yours that most of the complaints involve very distant relatives with little or no consistent source support. There is of course a correlation between those who are possessive about their "ownership" of the genealogical data in the number of complaints.James Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-53552059637960495302017-08-29T14:11:35.696-07:002017-08-29T14:11:35.696-07:00Just curious about your general impression on wher...Just curious about your general impression on where most of the "someone is changing my data" conflicts occur. <br /><br />I have to say that it seems to me that the vast majority of the time when I hear the details about such, it turns out it is regarding individuals born before the mid-1700s. It hardly ever seems to be about people with sufficient sources to know who they are. It's as if the problem of "changing my data" mainly arises when the descendants of the twenty John Smith's in a town all claim the only one with any records about him as their ancestor.<br /><br />What is your impression as to what the graph of Number of Data Wars vs Decade would look like?Gordon Colletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10501621351412089615noreply@blogger.com