From: john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr   
      
   On 02/03/2024 10:37, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > I'm currently climbing (up and down - following father as far as I   
   > trust, then stepping back down, and following mother ditto - lather,   
   > rinse, repeat) my tree, in both my own records and the master tree (or   
   > whatever they call it) at familysearch. Intent being to see if they can   
   > give me _pointers_ (I don't blindly accept, but try to check   
   > independently [and don't accept if I can't]); sometimes they give me   
   > ideas I haven't thought of, such as a placename in an adjacent county.   
   > Secondary intent to share my knowledge.   
   >   
   > I seem to be giving familysearch more information than I'm getting from   
   > them, but I don't mind that.   
   >   
   > But often, in particular where I'm examining a suggested duplicate to   
   > see if the suggested person is really the same as the person I'm looking   
   > at, it shows me when both people were "Added" - presumably to their   
   > master tree. And it's nearly always 2012 - often 1 or 2 May 2012.   
   >   
   > Was there some sort of mass glom - of people - at/by them that year?   
      
   I suspect it might be related to the merging of the LDS/IGI databases   
   and database restructuring in 2011/12   
   see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FamilySearch   
   https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/where-is-the-igi-on-the-new-site   
      
   You could ask FamilySearch   
   https://www.familysearch.org/en/fieldops/europe-contact-us   
      
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