Experiment confirms New FamilySearch hypothesis

The following observations are not intended to be critical of the New FamilySearch
program or its programmers. It appears, that despite their best efforts,
the relatively unsophisticated users of the program do not understand
or cannot follow the instructions and can thereby ignorantly produce
extensive duplication.

Having observed thousands of Ordinance Cards printed from New FamilySearch, I suspected that the number
of duplicates being processed was extremely high, despite claims that
the program was having an impact on the number of duplicate ordinances
being submitted. In a recent situation, a New FamilySearch
user presented a stack of over fifty cards for processing. It was
immediately evident to us that nearly all of the cards were requests for
duplicate ordinances, that is, ordinances that had been performed
previously.
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