Genealogy Chat

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

After watching WDYTYA tonight I think it met its match!

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.

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

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.

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

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.