General Chat

Someone on here asked to see my tree some time and when I looked at his he had married my nan to the man who lived next door to my aunt no relation at all

I did :-D :-D :-D

That's it Sue....You tell em!

They should be lined up and defrocked in a genealogical way ;-) and have their printed trees burnt at the stake.

In years to come there is going to be a lot of head scratching and fist banging and I feel very sorry for newbies who get taken in by their utter rubbish.

Sue

Had a name collector copy my tree from here. He now has thousands. If I google my names on my tree his B***** tree comes up. It is'nt even right.

Some "researchers" will copy anything that they find and don't even consider the stupidity

My relative in died in 1863.
A plonker of a name collector noted his address on the 1861 census, then found a photo of a very pretty house in "this street" on an estate agents website
He copied the photo and added it to his tree stating that it was typical of the house in which my relative raised his children.

The photo can now be found on multiple trees using the same info

The house in the photo dates from 1920-1930

Every one of my relatives children had already died of old age, before this house was built !

I know how you feel Sue as I got Smith!

Just thought I would check up on the tree that had my uncle as an apparent bigamist to see if the tree owner had corrected anything yet. Of course she hasn't and I have discovered that she has made a right mess of my great grandfather. He apparently fathered a child at the age of 14, and she knows this as the child is with him in a later census and she has found the birth registration. Er, no.....g.grandfather married a lady who had already had an illegitimate child who was registered and baptised with his mother's surname and a different Christian name to the one he was later known as.

G.grandaddy disappears after about 1880 but our number crunching friend knows where he is. He's in the workhouse in 1881 and dies in 1892. Again she has just picked on someone with the same common name, in roughly the right area, and decided that he is g.grandfather. It took my knowledge of a family "story", plus years of on-off research and a bit of lateral thinking to find him and it was a real Eureka moment when I did. When his brother-in-law died g.grandad left his family and moved in with bil's wife and children and lived under bil's name. Some years later he went back to his own name which was then used by dead bil's family as well.

If I tell someone that they are wrong I try to be courteous and friendly and give them all my evidence but it really annoys me when people make any old name fit the facts so that they can keep adding to their tree and brag that they have added another three thousand people this week!

Rant over

:-D :-D

lolol nothing like accuracy is there?

I wish a £500 would drop into my bank account so I could buy some much needed but not crucial certs to enable me to identify the rest of my Jones and Bateman Welsh line.

Why oh why did I get lumbered with Jones?

I once put someone right on the details he had for my great great grandfather who was born with a different surname to the one he was brought up as. I had his death certificate and his will which verified what I thought was right.

This persons response was 'I think we all have to guess sometimes or we would never get back any further?' I didn't bother to explain that he was getting back further with a family that had no relation to him whatsoever

I have a deliberate mistake in my tree
Its only a slight one
I did it so i can see who has copied my work ;-) ;-)

Many years ago I had a woman asking me to open my
private tree on Ancestry as she was looking into the Nerrlie
family especially A Nerrlie, unknown to her this was my mother.

I asked her what the connection was between her and the Nerrlie's
specifically A Nerrlie.
I'm still waiting for her reply.

Did look into her tree which held my mother's name and wrong info
about her and no way related that I could see.

Annoying, upsetting and you wonder if these tree owners know the meaning of research.

We can all make mistakes and usually pick them up when double or triple checking. Just to randomly add people because they share the same name (or even first initial) to bolster their tree numbers is beyond all reason.

As we have all said, these badly researched trees then get shared and the errors are never addressed.

My Richard Lightfoot is a prime example. Each eldest son was named Richard as was the eldest son of Richard Snr's younger brothers (makes 1st cousins a nightmare). Yes I know they had absolutely no imagination, a middle name would have helped, Just sticking any Richard Lightfoot into your tree doesn't work! Name collectors then proceed to add any of the possible wives which is when I click off.

Sue (who has head banged the wall a few times).

There's a single tree out there which has my great grandparents and their children on it 4 times.!

Each time their correct profiles have been used.
Their DOBs and marriage have been included yet they have been allocated with 4 completely different sets of parents on each entry... ALL incorrect.

Some plonker in the US is determined to make my great grandmother part of their own family from Illinois!
She was born in Scotland to second generation Irish parents who never left Scotland and had no connections there.

Square peg and round hole.
My great grandmother will never fit in this tree no matter how hard the owner tries

There's a tree out there somewhere with my husband being married to his sister, and his brother in law as a son of the family, even though his surname is different.... I'm not on it. hahaha

Seems so lolol

you saying you were a boy once Sue :-S

Me too Joy :-D

I would rather have less people and more meat on the bones
:-D :-D :-D

Certificates are expensive enough even when ordering direct.

I have a lot of people 'parked' because I have the gut feeling they are linked somehow but until I see evidence they aren't included..lolol they are just wandering around in the ether :-D

I know what you mean.

I just corrected a guy that had my great uncle married at age 18. Said he got the fact from the other trees. Well Bert never married but there is a man with the same name that did get married, so now he has me wondering if Bert did get married, and then something happened and that is the reason he went to live with my dad (dad was aged 4).

if I spend my money and it is the wrong guy I would of wasted my money and acquired another wrong certificate

ARRRGGHHHH and sigh :-D