Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

Hi Louis, FWIW: neither "Leib" nor "Braunstein" are Hebrew. These names are of German origin, meaning "Body" and "Brown Stone/ Rock". -Uwe

Hi Louis, I wasn't questioning the accuracy of the data in your family tree, I was referring to the data that is already sitting in the Family Tree List and to which people compare against. What guarantee do you have that the Family Tree List is correct in the first place? Your data might be 100% correct, ...

Hi Louis, I'm honestly surprised that you trust any data coming from FamilySearch. You're not concerned about the abundance of transcription errors and bogus genealogies? Uwe

Hi Louis, Building family trees the way you described above only makes sense if you are absolutely certain that the data provided by MyHeritage (or other sources) is proven and correct. If you don't have proof through documents, your data is pretty much worthless. Which is also the reason why I believe that ...

Louis, I believe that the above is a very unfortunate way to display ancestral birth places. It doesn't take into account that countries come and go, that territories change hands through wars, that political structures are turned upside down. A lot of background information is lost this way since you do ...

Hi guys, I'm a bit astonished that you seem to believe that source-based genealogy is a new concept and/or trend. No serious genealogist (well, at least the ones I know...) would base his or her research on hearsay, assumptions or other people's GEDCOM files ever. The data available at the LDS is a good ...