Genealogy Chat

After posting a request for help on the boards you still need to buy the certs to confirm what the helpers have found for you but many members do not buy them and take what is posted as gospel

No, neither is he!

Although it does explain why his his tree contains almost 30,000 names.

Only about 100 peple in his tree are actually direct descendants of of his direct ancestors!

my head aches just reading that explanation, let alone trying to work it out.

I was never very good at the 'once removed' type stuff anyway!

I could not agree more!
My husband and chidren have no interest whatsover in my hobby.

I am also with Dizzi on this, I too have researched as far as I possibly could with the knowledge that this was 100% correct.
For previous generations, there were too many possibles, some impossibles and no records as absolute proof. to research any further back.

After sharing the research with 2 others, I am pretty gobsmacked to find that they have managed to add a vast amount of additional Ancestry to MY research., ALL of it, the Impossible version!
At the last count, this unsourced info, together with my fully resourced and reseached data, now appears on 23 trees . Roughly 22 of them have no connection at all, because someone decided to add an" extra" child to an existing family,
Anyone with an ounce of sense would see that this child did not belong in the family.
Wherever documented info didn't fit with their "new" version, they simply chose NOT to collect that particular piece of info.

SHARING INFO

I am now extremely careful about sharing my family history. I have one fully documented tree, containing both mine and my husbands families.
I gave someone access, and although we share some ancestry via my paternal grandmother, this dude saw fit to transfer my ENTIRE family tree to his own ,INCLUDING related CERTIFICATES PHOTOS Ect., and ... HE MADE THEM PUBLIC!
He refused to remove any of this from his tree because he insisted it was HIS family too but, he was eventually forced to make his tree private

Now folks please dont laugh.... this is just one example...
My tree:
Relationship to me " Brother of husband's great Grandfather"
(EDIT: documents relating to this relative are are rather sensitive and are not for public consumption)

I asked this man to explain the connection between above relative ( and the documents collected) with himself
THIS IS HIS PROUD RESPONSE:

1st cousin 1x removed of wife of brother-in-law of sister-in-law of 3rd cousin of husband of sister-in-law of paternal grandfather of wife of brother-in-law of 1st cousin 3x removed of wife of 2nd cousin 3x removed of husband of 1st cousin 2x removed of husband of aunt of wife of 2nd cousin 2x removed

Relative or No Relative?

I agree Shirley

But who knows.... I remember my eyes glazing when Mum or Dad talked about family. How I wish now I had listened better.

In the far distant future when you are gone they may be thankful for all your research.

I agree with you Dizzi ,theres only so much info you can verify from census records etc so certs are vital.

I dread to think how much I have spent on them and guess when I am gone they wont be kept as my family arent interested in my hobby. I see the eyes glaze over when I enthuse about my latest find.

Experienced maybe, but thorough...no.
You carry on as you are, ...never mind those Royal links!


I haven't got certificates for all my immediate line, but I won't add people unless I have some proof. I have been to many Record offices and looked up baptism registers etc, but do buy certificates when needed.
My friend has 0ver 2000, bought over many years and costs shared with others who have sent her copies when she was running a One Name Study.

Gwyn

I KNOW WE ALL CANT AFFORD TO BUY CERTIFICATES BUT AT TIMES THEY ARE VITAL BETWEEN A COUSIN AN MYSELF WE HAVE OVER 150
BUT

I KNOW ONE PERSON WHO HAS SO MANY ON HER TREE THOUSANDS
NO CERTS BOUGHT WHEN I SENT COPIES OF MINE (WE ARE RELATED) IT PROVED WHERE SHE WENT WRONG BY COPING OTHER TREES NOT RELATED TO OURS WHICH MENT SHE WOULD LOOSE ALL HER DATA FROM 1780 BACK TO PRE 1066 AND HER ROYAL LINKS,SHE REFUSES AND STILL ADDS ANYONE WITH THE SAME NAMES,SHE CALLS HERSELF A VERY EXPERIENCE RESEACHER