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From: "Sharyn Hay" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] PRDH Problem
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:07:52 -0700
References: <00ec01c420bf$a83d5290$6601a8c0@universil6ghn6>


Dr. Desjardins has said it well and we all owe him, and his staff,
a debt of gratitude for making our family history searches so much
easier. I, like anyone else, dislike finding discrepancies in data. But,
I am very encouraged by knowing that PRDH has a track record of
researching and correcting errors when they are found.

Keep up the good work.

Regards,
Sharyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bertrand Desjardins" <c>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:55 AM
Subject: [Q-R] PRDH Problem


> Bonjour everybody,
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> Among other things, I bear full responsibility for the genealogical
> decisions of the project, our data management, our displays, etc. I am very
> proud of our work and I do not hesitate to write that I feel we have
> produced the best information system of the kind on a specific population in
> the world.

snip
> I would argue the best thing to do when one finds a mistake is not to cry
> wolf and issue a warning the PRDH is being the cause of bad data, but to
> write it in to us, so we can make the correction, to the benefit of
> everyone. This said, I recognize our mistake and...I do believe there are
> not many of them around!

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> BERTRAND DESJARDINS Ph. D.
> Prog. de recherche en démographie historique
> Centre interuniversitaire d'études démographiques
> Dép. de Démographie, Université de Montréal
> C.P. 6128, succ. centre-ville
> Montréal (Qc), Canada H3C 3J7
> Tél.: (514) 343-7613 Fax: (514) 343-2309


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