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You know when we all duplicate info on the help threads..................

Do you think it might be a good idea to delete the info if someone has posted it before....once, twice, or more

I try to delete if I see the duplication but dont see every one of course

What annoys me if when after I have posted info that a member goes back and updates their post with the same infomation. Has already happened tonight. Without getting personal it is usually the same member.

Quite often delete if I am duplicating another post but that is usually because I have forgotten to hit the refresh button.

I almost always delete if someone has posted the same info before me.

It can look confusing to the poster

jax

Yeah GB, I can see that

Im not botthered by the duplicate info (we've all done it)

........what worries me is the confusion it causes. New users dont get how things work on GR...censuses.BMDs etc. Then they are loaded with all our duplicate info.............................


ten times over ;-)

Soz Ja...x, missed your post

x

And you have said the same as me

So please remove it :-D :-D

Only jesting :-)

I wouldn't delete at all. It is additional confirmation that someone else has found the same info - reassuring.

We can easily explain to newbies how it works.

Just learnt that Gins' song is the match tune of Sheff Utd.

Usually I would delete if someone had beaten me to it. However, if I've put additional info on the post (e.g. background info from original census image) that the first poster hasn't, then I'll leave mine.

Like MC, if I've added the image info at the bottom, then I may delete the copy and paste part. But if it's intergral, I'll leave it.

As there is often more info on the image than the transcription, it seems a shame not to provide that as well for the sake of saving a couple of minutes.

I agree with Madmeg, I don't delete, I just leave it for confirmation.

The problem with the duplicate information ....... and I do plead guilty to not removing mine ...................


............. is that the the requester often believes that getting the information twice, eg census or baptism, PROVES that it is correct


which in fact it isn't ................... the duplicate post is not confirming the evidence, it is just showing that we're all using the same sources


I will deliberately add image information to a previous census posting if it has been omitted ................. but then I usually say something like "re the earlier posting of the 1891 Census by xxx, this is the information from the actual image"



sylvia

Thanks for the comments guys, I can see both sides of the argument.

I posted this thread because there seems to be much more duplicate info than there was a couple of years ago. I guess this might be because there are fewer requests for help these days

MadMeg.......clever girl It's called The Greasy Chip Butty' sung to the tune of 'Annies Song'

Oh, I've been singing it since I spotted it Gins. Decided to look at the club's website out of interest.

it's also possible to post the same info but from a difrerent source

my gripe today is the person who has just posted her fifth request for info when she has failed to revisit some of the previous threads to see what has been found!!! I hope no one falls for it again

Dear Mrs Madmeg

I'm taking you to the match so you can sing your heart out......we need all the support we can get ;-)

Gins...are you from Sheffield????

I'm a "spiritual" Yorkie...no connection whatsoever but I have supported the Peacocks for 30 years..well since I married actually...:-)

Hi Jude

You a Leeds fan?

Yes Sheffield United is my team.....proud and sad to support them!

Ann

posting the same information from a different source can add extra bits, or confirmation ....... it's when there are 3 postings of a baptism all from, eg, ancestry, that I think we get the belief that the second and third postings are confirmation of the first.


That was what I meant.


I do sometimes like to see a census posted from different sources, eg ancestry, fmp and GR .................... when there are different transcriptions, it can sometimes add a little bit of clarity to mis-spellings etc!




and these multiple postings of requests for information without having checked earlier threads are annoying




sylvia

Gins...yep for my sins! My husband as Welsh as I am supoorted the great team of the sixties - Lorimer was his favourite - and he has never wavered. So when we married thirty years ago...it was like "if you can't beat 'em join 'em"...so I did :-)

Back to the thread...I agree that for the new researcher that it is easy to believe that if it is posted here - whether once twice or more - it must be true. So the challenge for the amateur researchers helping out is to ensure they realise that it's a pointer, a suggestion and should be researched fully before committing it to your tree.

I remember in my early days when I was building the tree that I copied a line wholesale only to find that about half way through a very wrong assumption had been made ...it took me nearly two weeks to extricate myself! :-)

Would love to join you Gins, just to sing. I am only 30 miles away. Sadly, son in law supports Wednesday, so I might be regarded as a traitor, though his uncle support Utd.

My record keeping is rubbish, but there is another lady on here from Sheffield, who I have lost contact with. Can't recall her name. Sylvia can you help? She was looking for 3 sisters born London and one was Blanche who ended up in Sheffield.

Oh what a long shot, daft!