The satisfaction in this hobby is that you do your own research. Sometimes other peoples is useful and thats a bonus..and you can add to theirs. Also how far you want to go? Why build trees of 5000 people, whats the point in that? Its like having 5000 friends on facebook. Daft, its a bit ASD. Id rather build a new tree for someone else..and get it right!
Further. Its an absolute no no to put living people into publically viewable family trees posted on to genealogy sites, in many cases they wont know they are on there or even know you if you put them there. Wrong. Its also very easy for people to extend those trees into tracing living relatives by using GRO indexes and free BMD and then People Finding Services and Social Media.
The problem is that there are very many silver haired people now who have taken up this what can be a time consuming hobby..so they dont do..or do it properly when they are working and they dont take enough care, to get things right and to safeguard living people.
The problem is that there are very many silver haired people now who have taken up this what can be a time consuming hobby..so they dont do..or do it properly when they are working and they dont take enough care, to get things right and to safeguard living people.and here I was blaming all the younger people :)
The problem is that there are very many silver haired people now who have taken up this what can be a time consuming hobby..so they dont do..or do it properly when they are working and they dont take enough care, to get things right and to safeguard living people.
Some of us were young when we started getting ‘silver hair’ I much prefer it to being told I’m growing grey. My grandads full head of hair turned a snowy white while in his 40’s. I’m still hoping to get that look.Well I found my first grey hair at 19.
I recently found a distant relative aged 2 on 1911 census with WW1 medal cards attached.
I also recently came across my great grandad on a tree supposedly a one name study. He had the correct wife and children. But the wrong parents and a mix of his siblings and others.
It’s not worth the energy correcting them. Just smile and move on.
I have "Trees" on Ancestry. There are a lot of erroneous entries, and it has caused me to pursue ancestors, that although they are correct, actually were the result of a marriage between a family ancestor that was incorrect. It was his brother, whose tree went through to the Tyrrells, de Nevilles, Thomas Cramner, and right through to the 13th century. There were even some Plantaganet kings, George Washington, and the Spencer branch of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill's family. I put a lot of hours into this, until a birth certificate came up showing the wrong marriage, much earlier in the tree! Thus causing everything to "move over" somewhat." The air around me was a trifle blue for a while! That's life - or should I be saying that on this site?
I wish Ancestry monitored members' input more closely as their are so many very obviously inaccurate and unreailistic entries, such as the ssame marriages being repeatedly entered several times and women bearing children at age nine, etc. The faked up coats of arms are annoying as they are so very obvious.[/i]
Doesn't surprise me since I couldn't even convince someone that I'm alive.
I note that the member who complained about silver haired people has had considerable help from such members.
(I get my roots done about once every 5-6 weeks ;D )
I note that the member who complained about silver haired people has had considerable help from such members.
(I get my roots done about once every 5-6 weeks ;D )
Ok. What else does one write about on roots chat?
Firstly I am not expressing a view in this following comment, just pointing out a few things. Sometimes when I find a tree that has tens of thousands of people in it, I think is that person obsessed, or just copying other records, or possibly committed and well-organized. In another thread, I was saying that I recently realised that to make sense of some of the bizarre names I find amongst my 8000 matches on my heritage, I realised that I need to know all of the 5th generation descendants of my ancestors. At my age, a mere 62 I might add, I realise that it is impractical to discover all of these fifth descendants of my 5th great-grandparents. If I find somebody who has done a lot of research into the descendents of one of my ancestors, there is a strong argument for accepting their research.
I'm not trying to put the cat among the pigeons, just expressing two sides of a discussion.
Martin
Firstly I am not expressing a view in this following comment, just pointing out a few things. Sometimes when I find a tree that has tens of thousands of people in it, I think is that person obsessed, or just copying other records, or possibly committed and well-organized. In another thread, I was saying that I recently realised that to make sense of some of the bizarre names I find amongst my 8000 matches on my heritage, I realised that I need to know all of the 5th generation descendants of my ancestors. At my age, a mere 62 I might add, I realise that it is impractical to discover all of these fifth descendants of my 5th great-grandparents. If I find somebody who has done a lot of research into the descendents of one of my ancestors, there is a strong argument for accepting their research.
I'm not trying to put the cat among the pigeons, just expressing two sides of a discussion.
Martin
I have found that when reviewing and comparing trees on Ancestry, one little element of fact, or potential link I did not know, can send me down rabbit holes that ultimately lead me to changing details in my own tree that I had been convinced were correct, or to whole branches I was not aware of.
That is part of the joy and experience of this hobby.
Not sure if this is the correct thread, but I've just done a tree search for a possible sister of a 3 x grt grandmother.
I entered
Sinah Tannat - match slider to middle for surname
Born 1759 in Montgomeryshire, Wales - exact to place and +5 for birth date
I also included her husbands name (Peter Foulks)
They gave me:
Pierre Antoine Dhondt
Born 1758 in Hem
Spouse - Amelie Joseph Bayart
even a tree with sources needs at least some checking, as has been suggested.
Sinah Tannat - match slider to middle for surname
Born 1759 in Montgomeryshire, Wales - exact to place and +5 for birth date