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In my critisism of geneological websites I was a little concerned that the information that was uploaded to the database that seems to be used by many sites (but one company) GEDCOM was becoming "poluted".

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RootsWeb was founded in 1996 and has had an extraordinarily long and successful run, outlasting nearly every other website originating in those early days of the internet. RootsWeb has far exceeded its founders' expectations regarding longevity and its central role in creating an online genealogy community, but maintaining RootsWeb forever is not a viable long-term solution. We recognize the valuable genealogical information RootsWeb offers and are working to keep that community knowledge alive by migrating it to Ancestry and other places throughout 2023.

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Corruption of the GEDCOM database

Having come across some instances of where there has been information in some exmaples of individual family databases I can only suspect that the mis-information occoured due to the upload of speculative data to the GEDCOM database.

The prime example of this is the data found in a record of the historu of Sir John Botetourt. This was found drilling down on a record for the Sarah May Paddock Otstott family who I found when I was researching the de Vere family. Both de Botetourt and de Vere are closely associated with the history of the village of Belchamp Walter. I also found a reference to RootsWeb with a general relation to the county of Essex, Boyds Essex. While I have not investigted the contents of the Boyd's Essex entries it is disturbing that this was revealed by a Google Bard result.

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