General Chat

I have no idea what the attraction is. I want to know the ins and outs of every person in my tree (and everyone else's) lol.

I still appear as my Aunt's daughter on some trees despite telling them she had one child..a son.

Yes, I was seen at my Aunt's house a lot, she shared some of my care after my Mother died. So that must have spread from just one or two people who remember the late 1950s.

aaaargh!!!

The hints leaf on Ancestry doesn't seem to help. I think it allows you to 'drop in' information from other trees.
I have family members on someones tree f rom this and they have always refused to delete it because it ' just dropped in'. To make matters worse part of it is incorrect and the more that error is repeated the more 'correct' it becomes on that One World Tree.

If I spot an error and find the tree is huge I don't even bother sending a message just add a comment - problem is now that Ancestry has changed its tree it is not easy to spot that a comment has been made.

I think we have all come across these so-called "researchers".

My best one was someone who contacted me for information. She had a public tree on Ancestry so I took a look and it was pretty big and most of it copied from other trees I think. I found that she had my deceased uncle married to the wrong woman so I gave her the correct information but warned her that my uncle's wife was still alive.

She insisted that she had the right wife because she had found the marriage on freebmd. What she had found was a man with the same very common name who had married in the same town uncle moved to late in life. Because she had found uncle's death in this town she assumed he had lived there all his life. She got very huffy when I said I had known this man and his wife all my life, had been at their wedding, aged 4, and had photos to prove it. At that point she decided to add auntie (who was still alive and should have been kept private) as a second wife. So uncle now appears on her tree as a bigamist!! Needless to say all those number crunchers out there have copied the data straight on to their trees as well.


*sighs" with supercrutch

I found a tree on another site with my paternal grandma on and the tree owner has my grandma born in the U.S.A. Correct birthdate but a long way from Lancashire.

I came across a tree today on another site which listed my grandfather.

I had a look and the information is incomplete as is the number of his children (my father is missing for a start).

Checked how many names in this tree........94,501

*sighs*