Genealogy Chat

Spare yourself the anguish, ancestry trees are so easy to copy and once copied become fact.

As you say there are glaring errors, but it's rarely worth the bother to inform the tree holder, just be happy with your own research.

I have a few spoof relations on my tree to make it easy to spot the copiers, so anyone sporting my young Cornelius has copied from me !

I know Jax, for example someone born in Cornwall in 1700's then in America, then a year later having children back in Cornwall, then dying America, dont think so. Perhaps as Glitter Baby quoted should not worry


Carol :D

I have my tree private now as I did'nt want people copying my hard work.

I like to have a look whenever something comes up in recent member connect activity just to see if its a load of rubbish or not.

I saw five trees the other day that had the same death but it was different to mine...when I looked into it they had all copied one another or all accepted some idiotic hint that although living in London all his life ...died somewhere in the US ??

jax

I know Elizabeth, it is so frustrating that people are posting completly wrong information on the web, and perpetrating inaccurate information .

Carol

I today have been struggfing with the same responsibility of mistakes. I had my ancestor G dying in 1880 - then today found his wife as Head of household in 1851 - wondered where on earth I got the 1880 date from and couldn't find it anywhere, went to free BMD, Find my past, then my contact list on Ancestry, many of which had 1880 without a source, must have got it from my public tree, help, sorry!). He was alive in the 1841 cernsus, so in the end searched the death registers all over again and found a very probable one in 1843 Have inserted it as a possible fact in my Ancestry tree, and will have to get the certificate hoping the details will help to confirm..

This has taken most of the day, still haven't done the ironing! or sent off to the GRO either.

I know, but I worry about everything :-) :-)

As long as you are happy with your own research then why worry about other trees on the web

I have spent the last week looking on Ancestry's family trees, knew there were a lot of mistakes on one line of my tree, but I am now really frustrated that I am finding so many lines completly wrong, errors ie. mother 102 giving birth. I did try e-mailing several people but no reply. It is so obvious one tree wrong and everyone is copying. There must be so many wrong trees circulating on the internet, don't know what the answer is. The joke is several of these people say they can offer help - I think not.

Suppose I can feel satisfied that as a mere beginner, well 14 yrs. that I have a correct tree.

Carol :S