Putting comments on incorrect trees on Ancestry COMPLETED

[Marmalady]

If you do leave a comment on the tree itself --it will alert future researchers that the published info is suspect, and so (hopefully) prevent the incorrect info being further disseminated

[LizzieL]

Yes that's a good point. I was thinking more of not publicly telling the tree owner they had made major errors.
Maybe do both - belt and braces!

[rosie17]

I would give them a gentle reminder as its a direct ancestor in this case!Yes,when one Tree gets it wrong you find other people have copied the info.Whilst I wouldn't like to pass judgement without knowing the circumstances;if the person compiled the Tree quite some time ago,then they were perhaps adding in good faith given the available records at the time.Of course as we've seen recently more and more records have become available.I've altered info on two or three lines myself within the last year or so.

Regards
William Russell Jones.

I did try that even with private messages and it did not do any good telling them that these people were my direct ancestors .....So after that made my tree private now some of my photo's are sitting on some ones head in Florida ...Oh well at least they got a holiday out of it 

[panic]

You can't send messages on the library system, and if you have own account you can't message without active subscription.

If it matters to you, leave a comment, I've done that a few times and sometimes the owner has put on a follow-up and sometimes not. People make errors for a variety of reasons (though some seem daft like a child born 100 years before its parents!!) and often spotting the error can be appreciated, especially if you have additional info that corroborates it.

[tillypeg]

You can't send messages on the library system, and if you have own account you can't message without active subscription.

Thanks, Panic, that has answered my query.  Thanks to all others for contributing.

Tillypeg

[Helen D]

I found one yesterday that had a child born 2 years before its mother, and a chap who had all his children in usa but seemed to return to uk every cencus year . It was such a chaotic tree that I did nothing as I decided the author obviously did not care about accuracy

[CelticAnnie]

comments you leave on someone else's tree on Ancestry can be deleted by the tree owner, so you may not be able to reach other researchers this way -- depends entirely on the person owning the tree

CELTICANNIE

[msr]

Is that correct CelticAnnie?  I thought only the person commenting could remove them so will have to look further into this.

I do know that the comments I have put on my relatives (on other trees of course) remain.   Have been ignored, or replied to in a negative way, but not removed as yet. 
If the tree owner removes them I shall just have to reinstate the correct information.

[Christine53]

The tree owner can remove comments posted on their tree , but cannot remove comments posted on the media on the tree , such as photos. This has been causing quite a bit of controversy on the Ancestry message boards.