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Northumberland / Re: James Brown (unfortunately)
« on: Thursday 15 February 24 16:33 GMT (UK) »
Ah heck, thanks Ticketty. I did read carefully all of the answers to date but didn't click/follow the link in the response you're referring to. Lesson learnt. Well, FH is all about working on hunches and theories which you can either support or shoot down based on the the available evidence. And following Golden Rule #1 : never try to move back further until you have proved to your own satisfaction that you are still moving up the right tree.
I did notice on looking at this that several people on Ancestry have mis-attributed James Brown on their trees as a preacher b. Lowick c1834. But, hey, why let the evidence get in the way when you can add to the Ancestry mayhem ;-) Now that FH is more and more "crowd-sourced", you do wonder what will happen in the future when everyone just accepts and imports everyone else's nonsense. If 99 people have the wrong info and 1 the correct, guess which one will hold sway... Maybe we should go for establishing our Ancestry on a majority-vote basis rather than evidence-based. It might make your DNA results a bit confusing though.
I did notice on looking at this that several people on Ancestry have mis-attributed James Brown on their trees as a preacher b. Lowick c1834. But, hey, why let the evidence get in the way when you can add to the Ancestry mayhem ;-) Now that FH is more and more "crowd-sourced", you do wonder what will happen in the future when everyone just accepts and imports everyone else's nonsense. If 99 people have the wrong info and 1 the correct, guess which one will hold sway... Maybe we should go for establishing our Ancestry on a majority-vote basis rather than evidence-based. It might make your DNA results a bit confusing though.