« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 17 January 18 18:07 GMT (UK) »
In the dim and distant past when the internet arrived I had been researching for several years, so my research was done at the records office and holidays were booked according to what grave yard I wanted to see/photograph........... so when I 'found' part of 'my' tree online I was horrified that it was wrong however returned to the records office to recheck all my work.
Yes my research was correct so I wrote to the lady, her postal address was on there and she lived only a couple of miles from me but I received NO reply! I wrote again, NOTHING, so 3rd time lucky and wrote again telling her I had all the copies of the records and had 'researched' my tree and would be driving past her house on my way to the records office a couple of days later and could 'share' this information with her.
Her letter arrived next morning could I mail her my 'tree' or post it through her letter box as she would be out and she would post it online for me. Nothing about correcting what she had already posted, nothing about what record proof I had
Something just didn't sit right with what she said, so online I searched and realised she was a collector and up-loader of 'trees' anyone's trees spurious or not, nothing it was very clear was properly researched, the errors were glaring.
I never sent her my tree and to this day the spurious one is still there and many people have clearly copied it blindly.
It used to bother me, it doesn't now.....
Since then I have had several people who I have helped but really they just wanted 'my whole tree' sent to them which I can never understand as 'my tree' is not their ancestry and their only real 'need' seemed to be to have lots of people in 'their online tree' or 'get back further' regardless of if records are proved or not.
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