Well, I took an online class on "Salt Lake City research online through family search.org" on the Gen-Class website but wasn't able to do the hands on during class so started going back over my lessons and doing some of the hands on. This is a great site and the class was great and there is a second class to teach you even more about SLC research and the familysearch.org website. But (isn't there always a but), when I put in my grandfathers name, not only did I get IGI information on the name, but there were entries from a Mark Fonda with lots of information on John Fonda but with erroneous/misleading information. I had written to Mark Fonda before and told him that the information he was posting on my line, was incorrect and gave him the correct information. On this site he also has cd's of all this information for sale. But his information is misleading, incorrect, and though he has documentations for some of this it is not for everything and this will lead some people (those who don't do there own verifications), to perpetuate false family groups. My line that he has posted has a lot of erroneous information in it. I don't have documentation for everything either and that is why I haven't posted every thing in my tree, but I do know all about my grandparents and who their parents were. What he has is completely wrong. So a bit of advice to all who do research on your family tree's. Verify, verify, verify - prove, prove, prove that what you have is really correct. Find the documents, get the copies, get more than just one piece of proof - get as much as you can on each one of your ancestors and don't take one persons research for your own. Don't perpetuate false family tree's.
I know some people think they are doing everyone a favor by posting or making available lots of information for them to research, but unless they state that it is not proven or some such statement letting you know that it has to be researched and proven/verified, then I don't think they should be selling the information to others and making money off false information. But then, some people have no qualms about duping others. Just My Opinion.
