Genealogy Chat

don't think they had one...except it needs to have one put in...hmmm *ponders*

ok... so maybe a grown up goofing around lol.

A Kid with a credit Card???? And there is a Jesus Nazareth born in Bethleham! LOL.... What was adam and eves last name??

think he'll open his tree to us?

There's someone with God & Satan too. Reckon by the way they couldn't spell Heaven they're probably a kid doing a project or something? lol.

Check this out! Type in God as surname in search section..........one guy is related to Roman Gods!

Jackie, as Michael has said, I would most certainly start again, but you can use what you have as a guide, so you are verifying each step. If it is done properly it should point you to where you need to go to find the people you're looking at.

This would be the same for any tree given to you I think, you would want the verification so you could say yup, this is right. In some cases the person giving you it could be giving you certs and or index info, which would help. But if you really want to be confident that it's right then checking really is the only option.

I suspect it's gonna take a while.

After watching WDYTYA tonight I think it met its match!

I see from the BBC website that tonight's WDYTYA is going to have some fun with this type of ancient info ....

"link to the most famous family in history"

- possible bets:

English Royal family? - perhaps not the most famous

Jesus? - that would take some beating

Adam & Eve?

Sylvia, unfortunately there are 60 or more trees on Ancestry with the same misinformation. Some are 'public' trees, (but click on the name and it sends me to a membership sign up), some are personal trees, ('contact this member' sends to membership sign up) and 2 are Ancestry World Tree which does give email addies. I of them has the correct info. I have contacted the other. Another one I contacted has removed the wrong stuff and put a notice on the notice board telling members that the info is wrong.
I will send you a pm with the info, in case you are curious to see it for yourself, but I dont expect you to contact any of the many with it.
Huia.

No, he was Flocwald the only!
Allowing 10 years per generation, this tree goes back to 300BC (& no it's not mine!)

Michael I've found one even earlier, Flocwald 100AD & for some reason the previous 20 generations have no DOB's!!!!!!!

You mean she wasnt entered as "Mrs Tegid of Wales" ???

That's interesting Michael, I have to admit I've never looked for something like that, but I agree. Perhaps he was Tegid the goat herder lol.

Hi all,

I'm glad to read that the 'BC' thread didn't go completely unnoticed (it sank out of sight quite rapidly), because that was the funniest post I saw all week (photo-finish with 'commandments').


I very nearly took the bait myself - to congratulate them on writing such a witty spoof - but then realised they might have actually been serious and I didn't have time to get into an argument.


Mark

It does amaze me how people can mess up so hugely and refuse to correct it or ignore the problem. They obviously don't care about accuracy...I would love someone to point out any errors in my tree (providing they could give me the evidence to back it up).

Ron, that's the funniest thing I've heard all day, how could anyone possibly get their tree back that far. Seems like someone had a lot of fun making up some names.

Huia


do you want to email me with the information??

I do have a subscription and may be able to get the address for you. Although some are still not available to me 'cos I don't have the "full" subscription.


sylvia

How about having your brother named as your father???

That's the situation I am in.

AND not on a tree on here or on ancestry, but on a cd put out by the leader of a One Name Study group into the family name that has gone around the world.


I'm STILL trying to get contact him to get him to correct the mis-information that says my brother, born in 1929, was my father!

It's becoming a major problem .............. I've been in contact with the Registrar of ONS, and he has been making attempts to get this person to respond to me.


I think one part of the problem is that he is the son of one of my first cousins, and I have been told (and probably have the proof!) that it was one of his siblings that actually did all the major searching into the family and it was then "stolen" from him by this person.


sylvia

I shoudn't worry about people with trees on Ancestry, even when you try to contact them they don't answer, I must have emailed somone on there with some of my ancestors in common at least a dozen times, & left at least 3 comments on their tree & still no response.
I know they have been on there recently because it gives a date when they last updated it.

Summer Scribe: My sister cant have been as old as all that, since her father was only b in 1899 (correct) according to the people who have the (mis)information on ancestry. I have been tearing my hair out wondering how I can get them to remove these blatant errors from their trees, but unfortunately I cant afford to subscribe to Ancestry to get access to their addresses, apart from a couple of people, one of whom has removed them, the other says it is on his 'to do' list.

This really does get my goat.

We see it every day as people send in their tree files to be printed.

Carol and me gave up a long time ago at being amazed at how far people have gone back, one comment from a customer at a family history fair just about sums it all up, "It must be right, I got it off the internet". The record so far is a file that went back to 650 BC. I'd love to know how they researched that one.

The same goes for look up's, I do hope people take the information gained from a look up as guidance only and that they do get some proof before adding that look up into their database.

Ron
www.genealogyprinters.com

haw haw u did not, lol