Genealogy Chat

I agree with Lynski, it is worth trying to contact someone who has wrong data in their tree. I do find there is much less contact as a result of my trees on Ancestry than I get from my one tree on GR.

I keep my main tree public on Ancestry and anyone is welcome to use that information as I am resonably confident that it is as correct as I can make it. By and large I try to limit it to direct ancestors, their siblings and other spouses and children of siblings.

The other tree of my family I keep private because I use it to include more distant relations and other families of the same name in the same village in order to establish links. I keep that private because I don't want contacts about too distant relatives and because I can't necessarily guarantee that the families and data are correct.

I also have a couple of public trees for families where one member has the same name as someone in my tree. This is because there are trees on Ancestry where information relating to my ancestors have been wrongly assigned to their namesakes on the other trees. As the owners have not responded to direct comments I hope that eventually Ancestry hints will put them on the right track.

I've mailed and pointed out mistakes and people generally seem grateful. When I've mailed on here to view other peoples trees I've had very few responses. Two to be precise. I think people set up trees, do a month or two of internet search and then abandon the project.

Morning, Karen.

I would send a message to say you think/know there is a mistake - if they are serious about their trees they will take on board what you have said, do some more research and thank you for pointing it out to them.

I had someone write to me about a possible wrong marriage in my tree here on GR and I am so grateful to them because they were right. It was a direct line in my tree and it actually solved a big family mystery for me.

I couldn't thank them enough!

Morning

Just a question....
When you look at other peoples trees and see really bad errors, (eg on Ancestry) do you bother to email the tree owner and point out their mistake or 'tut tut' :-S :-S and move on..

I have several trees on Ancestry for different reasons, but my main tree is private, and figure if researchers want the info badly enough they will email me .. although this reasoning appears 'useless' as I have found over the last few years that nobody bothers to contact other people if they see a match. I have been with GR for many years and in the last 2 or 3 I have had only one or two contacts and no replies to my contacting others, I am almost at a stage where I will not renew my membership, but I digress :-S :-S

Many tks to all who do contact.. :-D :-D


Cheers
Karen of Brisbane

PS .. I am off to work, so will reply later .... :-)