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On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:36:14 GMT, Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh
Sullivan) wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 06:47:19 +0200, Steve Hayes
><hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
>>FamilySearch comes of age
>>
>>https://t.co/2do1nmRZq1
>>
>>In the last couple of years FamilySearch has completely changed the
>>way I do my genealogy research. I now spend most of my research time
>>comparing records in FamilySearch with what I already have, and
>>reconstituting families from FamilySearch data.
>>
>>It wasn't always like this.
>
>RootsMagic and Legacy do link to Family Search BUT...
>
>I find there is as much inaccurate data there as on Ancestry. Use them
>with care.

In my esperience, not quite as much. And in FamilySearch it is
possible to correct it before anyone else copies it. And they can only
copy it to their own computer (and then, of course, to Ancestry). They
can't easily copy it to elsewhere in FamilySearch. 

-- 
Steve Hayes
http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
http://khanya.wordpress.com

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FamilySearch comes of age Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2018-04-16 06:47 +0200
  Re: FamilySearch comes of age Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) - 2018-04-16 11:36 +0000
    Re: FamilySearch comes of age Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2018-04-17 07:48 +0200
      Re: FamilySearch comes of age Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) - 2018-04-17 12:24 +0000
        Re: FamilySearch comes of age "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-04-17 17:40 +0100
          Re: FamilySearch comes of age Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) - 2018-04-17 18:12 +0000
  Re: FamilySearch comes of age knuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-04-16 07:49 -0400
    Re: FamilySearch comes of age "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-04-16 17:34 +0100
      Re: FamilySearch comes of age Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2018-04-17 09:25 +0200
        Re: FamilySearch comes of age Jenny M Benson <nemonews@hotmail.co.uk> - 2018-04-17 10:38 +0100
          Re: FamilySearch comes of age "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-04-17 11:11 +0100
            Re: FamilySearch comes of age Jenny M Benson <nemonews@hotmail.co.uk> - 2018-04-17 12:17 +0100
          Re: FamilySearch comes of age Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) - 2018-04-17 12:38 +0000
          Re: FamilySearch comes of age Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2018-04-17 19:33 +0200
        Re: FamilySearch comes of age "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-04-17 10:59 +0100
          Re: FamilySearch comes of age Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2018-04-17 19:53 +0200
            Re: FamilySearch comes of age Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) - 2018-04-17 18:19 +0000
              Re: FamilySearch comes of age Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2018-04-18 05:34 +0200
            Re: FamilySearch comes of age "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-04-17 20:36 +0100
              Re: FamilySearch comes of age Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2018-04-18 05:43 +0200
    Re: FamilySearch comes of age "catalpa" <catalpa@entertab.org> - 2018-04-16 21:06 -0400
  Re: FamilySearch comes of age Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2018-04-17 02:48 +1000
    Re: FamilySearch comes of age Keith Nuttle <Keith_Nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-04-16 13:25 -0400
  Re: FamilySearch comes of age Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> - 2018-04-17 13:14 +0100
    Re: FamilySearch comes of age "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-04-17 17:40 +0100
      Re: FamilySearch comes of age Charles Ellson <ce11son@yahoo.ca> - 2018-04-18 21:37 +0100
        Re: FamilySearch comes of age Jim Dell <James.Dell@SBCGlobal.net> - 2018-04-20 14:56 -0400

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