DUNK genealogy....how can so many get it wrong on Ancestry

[lizdb]

It probably comes down to cost.  Cost of proof. 

If you can see somebody who seems to match -v- £100 of subscriptions and £100 of various CDs and £100 of assorted certificates/etc .... then why not run with it, especially if it's your GG-grandfather's first wife's brothers child from his 3rd marriage.... or similar.

Iwould say a very good reason not to " run with it" is that it might be wrong.  I cant see any point in putting together a tree, however large and impressive, if thepeople on it are actually not "yours" at all, and the info incorrect!.
Better to have a smaller tree and be sure it is genuine. 

[finnisfinder]

 I agree with you on this lizdb, as I posted earlier about the male/female mix up, the person concerned had a massive tree, obviously wasn't worried about this small detail.

Back to the Dunks,interesting about the Will John. It has put some detail on Zara and Elizabeth's lives. Zara died 1862, Elizabeth  in 1886.

My gt gt grandfather, George Spratling, was Elizabeth's nephew. George had a brother Zara Dunk Spratling 1837-1870. He was the one who had his sex changed.

George had a son Zara born 1862. Charlotte Harlow, George's wife died within a few hours of Zara's
birth.
This Zara married Louisa Mary Ann Finnis who was the sister in law of Zara's sister Ann Spratling who was married to John Belsey Finnis.

There are a number of posts about the Finnis family on the forum.

I have always thought it was easier to spell Zara than Zachariah, so that's how it came about.

I will check up on the Dunks you posted AJ, I have never gone into that line.

[StanleysChesterton]

It's a combination of cost and how closely those people are 'related' to the tree maker.

I don't publish publicly, I keep my errors close to my chest - but it's easy to see how somebody whose great-grandfather's brother's adopted child's first wife could appear on the tree ... and be entirely wrong and they'll never know/care.

[finnisfinder]

  Thanks JohninSussex, I looked at the will, certainly is the family.

  Finnisfinder.