Family Historian User Group

I spent some time working with FamilySearch FamilyTree and with one of its support forums, GetSatisfaction. GS was a nice little community before it was "improved" to split everything over a dozen sub-communities. While in there, we found some typical themes of people (bluntly) messing up. One them...

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28 Oct 2022 17:31

understanding the potential motive of contributors and sponsors is a vital part of assessing the potential reliability of data.

What potential motives of contributors and sponsors could undermine the credibility and reliability of a FamilySearch ID?

You can vote for it at https://fhug.org.uk/wishlist/wldisplay.php?wlwlref=542 , where it has a little more support. That wish list is effectively for 'hints'. What Calico is clearly developing, and which I agree is needed, is proper integration between Family Historian and FamilySearch. That means ...

I’m afraid the idea of a truly unique identifier assigned by FamilySearch (a retrospective digital ID to pass through the pearly gates?) just won’t work in the real world, for reasons discussed. I think I missed the 'reasons discussed'. I think the FamilySearch ID does work as a truly globally uniq...

This is veering into a discussion that should more properly be in the Research Forum... Since I'm a Newbie here, I'm happy to be directed to where things are supposed to be discussed. This particular discussion started because we were talking about the FamilySearch ID, which is the first stage in F...

I've had bad experiences with FSFT and Ancestry trees, where people just copy data without checking it, so take everything with a pinch of salt until I can prove it. I absolutely agree about Ancestry trees. I'm not trying to defend them. For FSFT, I fully accept that there are still errors. Nobody ...

Yes to integration between packages, but that isn't the Family Search ID. It is the UniqueID, as first introduced many years ago, now supported by many packages, including FH7, and fully integrated into the next GEDCOM release (version 7). I would welcome some further information about the Unique I...

Thanks for the views expressed about the impossibility or at least impracticality of a definitive and collaborative tree. I think those views reflect your own experiences, and are not shared by everyone. It is probably a case of ‘different strokes for different folks’, i.e., everyone should use what...

(2) The FS Family Tree (FSFT) is becoming the definitive family tree of all mankind, as its many initial data errors are being eliminated. :lol: :lol: :lol: Not trying to be cruel, but my wife has spent many many hours at FSFT correcting entries relating to members of her family, only for the error...

It would be good to know if Calico is working on integration with FamilySearch, but it would be much better if they would publicly commit to it with a timeline. I have been planning to move from Family Historian to alternative software because of this specific issue. The world of genealogy is evolvi...