Genealogy Chat

Alex I don't think they do check, just keep downloading ged.coms. I once contacted someone re. a match, when he opened his tree to me (which they are always willing to do so you open yours) he had over 30,000 names, needless to say I gave him a wide birth. I only have about 1,300 names and it that has taken me 13 yrs.
Carol

Sadly some people are so excited at the prospect of getting another generation back, often when it means going into the 1600s or 1500s and blindly eagerly copy it all onto their tree - often via linking / merging trees on Ancestry.

I've helped a lady today - spent most of the day working on untangling the mess she had gotten her tree into. It was nice to have someone be thankful for the help and advice and to be able to hopefully prevent her from going down a completely wrong avenue any further than she already had gone, and any potential people copying her research and perpetuating the mistakes.

I honestly dont understand how she managed to get it all so completely wrong, but at least hopefully now she will be able to get on with researching the right people!

I know Alex, a really distant relation of my husband was in contact. I opened my tree, he was I think so excited that my tree went back to 1200 that he copied it all, no relation to him whatsoever.
Carol