You are mixing apples and oranges, in your continuing effort to denigrate all things Mormon. Either you have no idea what you are talking about, or you do, and you are deliberately misstating things. Which is it?
The family records, pedigree charts and family group sheets on FamilySearch never were intended or offered as “proof,” and Mormon genealogists don’t take them as “proof.” We wouldn’t expect anyone else to take them as “proof.” As I have said several times on this thread, they are a starting place for researchers. They can establish relationships, they can give information about places of origin, telling you where to search for authoritative source documents, which are things like public records and parish records.
The “proof” is in those authoritative source documents. We have a lot of those. Some are on the website, and can be searched for free. Some are on microfilm in the library, where they can be searched for free. If you don’t want to come to the library, and you want your own copy of the microfilm, you can order a copy, and pay enough to cover the cost of making it and sending it.
When the Mormons are inputting data — as volunteers — they are doing just that. They are not just “handing in anything.” If you look at ellisislandrecords.org, for example, you can verify all the data inputted by the volunteers, because there are photographs of the original ship manifests from which the searchable data was copied. It’s really kind of amazing and neat, if you have any ancestors who came through Ellis Island.
It’s really interesting watching you try to put a negative spin on everything.
It’s really interesting watching you try to put a negative spin on everything.
Since you know I have no ancestors who came through Ellis Island...