Genealogy Chat

Yep i had one lost in translation my GG grt grandmother was down born Ixale co Kerry no one had heard of it why cos it should read Tralee.

I had the same we do have a connection but somehow he had my dad married twice and in the navy,dad was a miner and still married to my mam when he died but he was most sorry and deleated them from his tree.

Someone copied my tree, and I found out later on ,that one of my great grandfather's sisters had married a different man than I had, I noticed she still had the wrong one.
AND this branch of family had nothing to do with hers.

You could always send a message to GR and ask them to remove the 207 ancestors from that tree

I had a family of Hazlehursts wrongly transcribed as Churst so the head of the family was William Hey Churst. Luckily a kind person who looked for me spotted it so another bit of the jigsaw was fitted.
Barbara

I finally bit the bullet and subscribed to Ancestry. It has been really helpful, but I have had to submit a lot of corrections there. Things like the name Harriet being misread and being on the Ancestry record as 'Harnet' and Beehive Yard being totally misread as 'Bechur Yard'. When I've looked at the original document you can actually read it c as it should be rather than their transcriber has read it. I don't know if it's sloppiness on their part or just bad eyesight, because to me it's as clear as day.

There are some really odd things on some online trees and sites.

Yesterday I spotted a relation mentioned on a website as born in Hungary.

What! I thought. Then I looked at the original census and it was Hun.

Pity the transcriber hadn't looked more closely and realised they were in Huntingdonshire.

Sue

At the risk of opening up the tedious debate yet again whether or not to reveal one's tree I think that the best argument for openness is that it challenges these fanciful and erroneous trees. If we hug our accurate versions to ourselves then the loony ones will have free range.

Peter

me and my mrs have been searching for our trees, its took me 2 weeks and hours sat at the computer to to get the few ive found and its the fun and satisfaction of achivement i get from it when i find them,my mrs emailed someone who had her mother on there tree and within 5 minites she had her tree back to 1770 ish i no its easier if someone sends it to you but its the satisfaction of doing it yourself that i like

I wrote to one person who i knew was from the same family as mine going back to 1700's grt x 4 she married a man who it seems was a miner his family ended up being farmer's buying land ect.He insisted there was no connection because his ancester's had money and owned land is this snobbery or what,does it really matter from all those years and years ago,i think not.
Sandra.

Hi Sue
Still got the hair but it's a real disappointment when I think there's another branch and it turns out to be dead wood! Don't know about you but I love finding connections even the most distant so I'd be quite happy to share with a genuine link.
Cheers and hope you won't need a wig!
Barbara

Exactly Budgie, but you can only tell them so many times!

Barbara,

lol, do you have any hair left? Mine is laying in clumps on the floor!

x

Just got another message from GR about a possible match - you guessed it, same man. Now we appear to have 207 members in common. I wouldn't mind but he contacted me first!
Barbara

O.K. Sue, I see, thankyou. I missunder stood what Springfield wrote. I have found things on someone elses tree that I believe to be wrong or not relavent to my tree, it would be so easy just to take that info. blindly and not check it out.
I love these chatty sites I have enjoyed reading your comments Brenda

Brenda

They haven't altered my tree but on other trees that hold branches they have information which is inaccurate. These inaccurate ones have been copied by other people including the wrong information.

If I take information from these other trees invariably there are inaccuracies relating to other people I am looking for. I end up going down quite a few blind alleys before I realise they have the wrong person placed in the branch.


Sue

I didnt think any one could interfere with your tree, even if you gave them permission to open it, Brenda Dewar

I don't know how anybody can copy your tree off here, unless you have given permission for them to see your tree. The only people who have access to mine, are people, who I know are related, somewhere down the line to me. Just because they have the same surnames means nothing.

Ann

I'm still trying to find the link to someone on this site who apparently has 206 relatives in common with me! I've sent loads of messages but had only one reply. When I look at his tree most of the info seems to have been supplied by me as well! Very frustrating.

What is the point of tracing your tree if it is inaccurate?

I copy ancestors who may be related and then double check that they are on the right branch. I am desperately trying to get to the root (forgive the pun) of two branches of Lightfoots.

Mother was a Lightfoot who was brought up by another Lightfoot and I cannot find the relationship after 3 years of trying.

To cap that she was adopted by an Ostler and a rellie of his married another unrelated Lightfoot.

So I do have branches that float around off the main tree but it doesn't help when those are inaccurate.

Sometimes I despair of ever getting these branches attached to the tree.