Interesting Blog about the Wiki-ness of New Family Search

I ran across an interesting blog, written by Dr. Dave (New Family Search # KWH8-T4Z) about what he calls the wiki-ness of New Family Search. According to the writer, the wiki aspect of the site lets all kinds of bad data get posted.

This is an issue with genealogy data and always will be. The more data that is available from all kinds of sources, the more chance there will be error. But then again, we often find pearls in among the stones…

Read Dr. Dave’s June 2, 2009 comments in the Why Not? blog.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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