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"Certified" Facts and Relationships.
It seems to me that with all the genealogy work that has been done someone should be able to provide certified documentation for most people in the US for the past 300 years. It is a hugh waste of effort, and highly error prone, for thousands - no millions - of people to be pawing through the same data trying to pin down the truth about their families. The amount of garbage information on sites such as Ancestry.com (speaking here mostly about individual family trees rather than source information) is enormous!
Is anyone looking at ancestry research from this perspective?
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Permalink Reply by Sean K on
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Not sure what you're trying to say here! But I do agree there is a lot of genealogical 'pollution' online these days, by name collectors who have little idea (or care) where they obtained their information or whether it is trustworthy. On the one hand the global enthusiasm for family history is incentive for more historical documents to be digitised, on the other hand it means the serious genealogists have to pick their path through it all far more carefully.
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