u/compellor

Do you feel a pang of stress when receiving "Changes to people you follow" emails?

Like, you just know that you're going to have to spend the next half hour repairing linkages and detangling the mess after some well-meaning person takes the wrecking ball to persons in your painfully researched work? Or they add relationships based on flimsy evidence or simply because some names are similar? Or they link up a confused mess because the father, son, and grandson had the same names? Or they delete linkages because they didn't know their great grandfather married again? Or they change a person's name to the transcription error of a single source? Or they change the death date to something wrong even when there's a picture of the grave stone/death cert? Or they add misinformation about a person you knew personally? Do you hope the list of changes are for people hundreds of years back so you wont feel compelled to go check?

Me neither.

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u/compellor — 3 days ago