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Family Data Collection - Deaths

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Family Data Collection - Deaths

Use this database as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. After finding the name of an ancestor, confirm the facts in original sources, such as birth, marriage, and death records, church records, census enumerations, and probate records for the place where the event took place.

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  • Background information.
  • Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
  • The Family Data Collection - Deaths database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease. Compiling data for genetic research does not require the same type of documentation as traditional genealogical research. The genes themselves verify relationships and qualify or disqualify a person from a particular study. Citing the source of every genealogical fact in the electronic gene pool was deemed unnecessary and cost prohibitive by medical researchers. Millions of individual records were created from birth, marriage and death records; obituaries; probate records; books of remembrance; family histories; genealogies; family group sheets; pedigree charts; and other sources. The records collected that did not fit a specific study became the project's by-products and were schedule to be discarded. After viewing the quality of the source material used to create the gene pool and despite the absence of cited documentation, the electronic rights to the data were purchased, rather than see it destroyed.
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Jillaine, The purpose of the profile is to explain this 'source' and offer a way to clean up a messy profiles that use this source. If any of these highly derivative sources (there are many) contain bad information, it needs to be documented here on WikiTree. If we don't someone else may use it to delete correct information on WikiTree. There are many people complaining on G2G that bad information is repeatedly added back into WikiTree. This will not solve the problem, but it is one method to help prevent this problem.
posted by Rick Pierpont
Rick, I strongly recommend against using this source anywhere on wikitree. Especially when we have stronger, more original sources. There is at least one discussion on g2g that discusses highly derivative works.
posted by Jillaine Smith
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