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Topic: Family history is thoroughly corrupted (Read 2308 times)
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LizzieW
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I don't really care that people have the wrong info on their trees, that's up to them. However, it does seem a bit perverse to be interested in family history but not check properly.
I am in touch with a 4th cousin in Tasmania, he has done a lot of research verified with certificates etc. but for some unknown reason decided to take some info he'd found on an Ancestry tree as correct. He then bought the "wrong" marriage certificate. He asked me about it and I said I had a different husband for our mutual ancestor. I hadn't yet bought the marriage cert, but having looked at FreeBMD and found two possible men on the same page, I then checked on the census after the date of the marriage to see which of the men's surnames had become hers. Easy to do and very effective. It turned out I was correct and my 4th cousin having now bought the correct marriage certificate agrees with me.
What didn't make any sense was to order a marriage certificate using what may or may not (and in this case not) be the correct husband. Why not order the certificate using the known name of the ancestor.
Lizzie
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
STANTON - Lincs
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- Bethnal Green
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kerryb
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I'm sure it has happened to us all. I spent months of hard research on a line that I thought was mine and through blood, sweat and tears got 3 generations in the 1700s.
Then a contact emailed me and pointed out that the census return of my great x 4 grandfather that I had pinned my research on was the wrong one. There were in fact 2 boys born round the same time with the same name in the same village but what I had failed to see was that the death certificate of mine definitely put him as the census return I had not seen rather than the one I had (if that makes sense).
I was grateful she pointed it out to me and eventually started on the right trail but a bit peeved that I had just paid West Sussex CC for some parish registers entries for the wrong family  
I'm sure Bhoy that your contact will be grateful eventually 
Kerry
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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mike175
RootsChat Veteran
Posts: 770
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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The worry about not being able to transfer your hard wrought computer files from one platform to another is no longer relevant. The internet has done away with that problem: if you can get it on the web you can literally port it to any other system.
I'm as much an enthusiast for the Internet as you'll find anywhere, but I do remember that all those uploaded files are still stored on a server somewhere . . . ok, maybe on several servers, with multiple reduncancy, and all manner of safeguards, but it's certainly not under my control.
Furthermore, when I want to access the data I need special equipment to translate the digital coding into the English language and reproduce it on an electronic screen, so I also need to have an electric power supply. No doubt our brains will be eventually hard-wired into the "system" at birth thus avoiding such inconveniences, but until then I'll settle for printing it out in a form I, or anyone, can read unaided . . . except, as I say, for the reading glasses 
Mike.
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Baskervill - Devon, Foss - Hants, Gentry - Essex, Metherell - Devon, Partridge - Essex/London, Press - Norfolk/London, Stone - Surrey/Sussex, Stuttle - Essex, Wheate - Middlesex/Essex/Coventry/Rutland/Oxfordshire/Staffs, Gibson - Essex
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angelfish58
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 334
Who is Norman Carne & why do we have his photo?
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I have noticed some very odd things on people's trees on Ancestry - including some folk married long before they were born
Carole
Occaisionally Ancestry goes a bit giddy and displays wrong dates even when the correct ones have been entered. I was embarrased to find I had my great grandma christened before she was born, but when I went to edit it I had put the right dates. (Although someone has my dad dying 30 years before he actually did)
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Watson, Snowball, Pyburn, Heppell, Ferry, Holmes, Clennett, Co.Duham & Northumberland
Stockton, Watson N. Yorks
Brown & Anstey, Devon
Challnor/Challoner, Moore, Mansell, Shropshire
Davies or David, Glamorgan
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kerryb
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I think the One World Tree had a lot to answer for in terms of people being able to link people wherever they fancied but I believe that has been changed now!
Kerry
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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OMG Bhoy, if you know, tell them. 
