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Yes, never mind all you Smith people who don't want to be my cousin -- I've just found a new one. Not Smith. Ha.
She is the grx3 granddaughter of my grx2 grandfather on my dad's side (she from his first wife, me from his second). I get the feeling we're around the same age. Her child of our mutual ancestor was born in the 1850s, mine in the 1860s; hers married very young, mine married a little later; and so on.
And how did she find me?
She signed up at Ancestry today ... and the very first thing she found was my notes (added 3 years ago) on the census records of her grx2 grmother (my gr-grfather's half-sister). I had added that woman's birth surname to a census record where she appeared after marriage, and corrected the spelling of that surname on the record of the woman's father, our mutual ancestor, in the same household.
Ta da. Make corrections at Ancestry! Add info to records at Ancestry! You will get cousins!
My three other big cousin finds that way so far are:
- a grx2 granddaughter of the older sister of my gr-grfather the mad (Hill)Monck - same generational difference - she's older than me, but my gr-grfather was 50 when my grfather was born. Unfortunately, she didn't even know her ancestor was a Hill ...
- a grx4 granddaughter of my grx4 grandmother (different husbands) in Canterbury -- the grx4 grmother whose brother's grandson was Lord Chancellor of England and wrote the Privy Council decision that pronounced that women in Canada are "persons", whom my new cousin found out about (although she thought he just wrote lines for Rumpole) and I might never have figured out
- the gr-granddaughter of my grx2 grandparents in Nottinghamshire (this cousin really is nearly my mum's age) who sent me pictures of our ancestors' graves
Add notes to Ancestry!
Add postems to FreeBMD!
Then you can get cousins and be smug too. ;)
Anybody else had nice surprises from busybodying around those sites?
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That's lovely Janey :))
I am on a roll tonight, lots of finds over the last couple of weeks which have made sense of old family stories, and had a chat with mum's first cousin's widow this week,today received some photo's from her that I didn't have of 'new' people to add (1800s) and a trail to follow :)
xx
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Hmm, but what about what's 'er name, Rose ... see how I've blocked it out? ;)
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do NOT mention whatsername Janey LOL she is still enveloped in mystery :(
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janey thats great news .well done.[but im not suprised ...your just clever .xxx]
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Oh Janey that's fabulous..
I must make a correction on ancestry 3 times a ruddy day at the moment and yes you are so right..
It gets results..
Not always the right results, as I have a line that someone has added the wrong info and now about 6 or 7 people have copied said wrong info and on it goes...
Turns out when ancestry give those 'ancestry hints' with the little leaves they add them without checking them!!! DER!! might be the same name but nothing else matches up... they've all given me two John A's with wives and families as brothers to my GG Grandma.. I couldn't even find a thing on the real one after the 1851 census..
On the good side I got a fantastic link to my Grandad and have been sent copies of letters my GG Grandad sent. She has gained photo's of my Mum and siblings. Now I'm sad again as I think she's abandoned me...
Tricia (Smith)xx
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I'm just a busybody. ;)
There are hundreds of corrections at Ancestry that belong to moi. ;) Most of 'em not my people, just unspeakably stupid Ancestry tricks I run across in my searches.
Had a contact from somebody just the other day. In 1891 especially (but also other years), Ancestry has made the whole world a Mormon in England. Every woman identified as "wife" whose husband wasn't to home on census night (imagine fishing communities and ports) got stripped of her surname and assigned to the nearest previous male head of household as his spare wife. They're at different addresses, on different household schedules, with double lines between them -- and clearly written surnames of their own -- but oh no, Ancestry doesn't care. There can't be a wife w/o a husband.
My gr-grfather (the one whose half-sister's grx2 granddaughter just contacted me) has two wives in 1891. Per Ancestry. So does the father of my mother's aunt's husband the home child.
Oh, even better, that gr-grfather's mother has been transcribed as the wife of the nearest previous head of household ... a *woman*.
19th century England was both polygamous and amazingly progressive ...
Whenever I run across one of these, I fix it -- an entire household of a woman and her children assigned the surname of a completely unrelated man. And I make sniffing comments about Ancestry's moronicity.
So this guy contacted me about his ancestor, whom I am sure he only found in the first place because of my correction. I explained how I'm not related, just an altruistic fixer. And explained the stupid glitch in Ancestry's system (which I think it is, rather than transcriber error -- even though the system should not even *allow* for somebody to have two wives), and how widespread and annoying it is.
His response was that I seem to have an axe to grind against our friends at Ancestry. Etc.
You may imagine my response to that, what I suggested his response to me *ought* to have been. Those two little old words ...
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Oh, Tricia, Ancestry "hints"?
Step away from those hints. ;)
That's how my ancestor who was hatched, matched and dispatched in Cornwall acquired a son (with not even the same surname) in Tennessee. His given name and year of birth just happened to match my ancestor's son, and never mind the spelling difference -- 3 people took the hint and adopted my guy into their trees.
And then there's my ancestor in Cheshire who had a grandson 250 years older ... older ... than him in New England ...
Ancestry had this brilliant idea that someday they would have everyone in the world in one big tree. And then the Mormons could make sure they were all properly posthumously baptised.
Bad luck for us the way it turned out. Hopefully also for the Mormons. I wonder what happens when you baptise a non-existent person? ;)
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