I was up in the cloud the other day going through some documents, and found about 150 obituaries and pictures I decided to upload to familysearch.org. For those of you that aren't familiar with this, you can sign up for free and see what genealogy information I have submitted there. It is one large
collaborative tree, so anyone can add, or dispute anything you put on there. You can type Matilda Mae Lane, and it will pull up her parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc. On James Roland McKeel's side his Newsome line goes back to like the 1500's. Just dead people show up, not living ones. You can start your own tree, put in yourself, your dad and mom, then once you put in Grandma Matilda and James, it will connect all the generations they have on there.
Back to my story though....... I received an email from familysearch.org and they told me the information I submitted did not meet their approval, and that they would be deleting it within 30 days. Now, I am the person at church that TEACHES people HOW to attach this information to their family member, and they have the nerve to tell ME they don't allow it?!?!? How dare they!
So, I had to research to see exactly what I had actually put on there. It was a newspaper article that told about the suicide of Sherrill's great uncle that was 26, a fireman here in Goldsboro, and was found with a self inflicted gunshot.
As I read back through the do's and don'ts I discovered that I was supposed to only include "Uplifting" information concerning each family member. I guess they don't want to know all the bad stuff! So, back in the file it goes.
I got one up on them though. After I downloaded a picture of Grandaddy Goodwin in a boat, I noticed a liquor bottle sitting at his feet! I guess they haven't seen that one yet!
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