Can the Family search website generally be trusted?


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It is truly an amazing resource to say the least having all the free records in one place. I went back a few generations of my own and was then able to link into some truly amazing work somebody else has gone to discover my apparent 16th Great Grandparents. (I have managed to link into already completed tracing on virtually all sides of my family). 
However, I have spotted a few red flags which have caused me to question the credibility of this site. I have a great grandmother who died in 1976. 

The closest relatives all being children - and non-members at that, who live in the UK. Yet, all her ordinances have been completed in temples in Ecaudor and Utah (and her sealing to spouse being completed before her baptism even took place). My grandad knew virtually nothing of the Church before my conversion and so I find it highly unlikely he, or any of his siblings, gave consent to a group of Ecaudorian and Utahns to do temple ordinances on his parents. 

Does anybody else have other examples like this? Are the collaborative tracing efforts of others trustworthy? 

Thanks. 

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The data is only as accurate as the people entering it.  And yes, it's possible that folks did work without permission after claiming they had permission...  Automation / automatic / computer validation can only do so much to prevent this sort of thing.

If the temple work is marked done, then temple work for the person with that record number was done.  The website is basically the Church - they own it and run it, just via the Family History department...

Keep in mind that with siblings and cousins and nth cousins and removeds, there are about a zillion people related to anyone from 4 generations back.  Check out https://puzzilla.org/ - you can use your Church login and it will pull all your FamilySearch records and find indirect relations and gaps in your tree that would be hard to find elsewhere.  (It was designed by the guy who designed the Church's genealogy database - a guy I know and highly respect.)

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24 minutes ago, zil2 said:

The data is only as accurate as the people entering it.  And yes, it's possible that folks did work without permission after claiming they had permission...  Automation / automatic / computer validation can only do so much to prevent this sort of thing.

If the temple work is marked done, then temple work for the person with that record number was done.  The website is basically the Church - they own it and run it, just via the Family History department...

Keep in mind that with siblings and cousins and nth cousins and removeds, there are about a zillion people related to anyone from 4 generations back.  Check out https://puzzilla.org/ - you can use your Church login and it will pull all your FamilySearch records and find indirect relations and gaps in your tree that would be hard to find elsewhere.  (It was designed by the guy who designed the Church's genealogy database - a guy I know and highly respect.)

Sounds like a good resource, I will check it out. Its my understand that collaborative efforts are often quite accurate - wikipedia being a good examples, as it allows for thousands of editors to fact check it at once. I'm just wondering if people have seen any glaring issues, I would like to trust what I have found as I don't really have the time to fact check the hundreds of entries for myself. 

The concern I have with this particular example, it would appear that the ordinances were completed under false pretences of gaining permission when this was not the case. Surely such an act should invalidate the temple work, as permission from a close relative is something required for those who died within the last 110 years. 
 

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44 minutes ago, HaggisShuu said:

those who died within the last 110 years. 

It's actually those who were born within the last 110 years.  See this page, though you may have to log in to access it:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/what-is-the-110-year-policy-and-why-was-it-initiated

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