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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Jackiemh on Monday 21 September 20 22:25 BST (UK)
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I recently took out a short term ancestry subscription (I only intend to have it for a month or 2) to try to chip away at some of the brick walls in my research.
So, there I was looking at someone's public member tree which included my ggg grandfather - I am trying to find out where he was born, parents etc - and thought I would check that this tree tallied with mine. I got down to my father, mother and then me.
Apparently I died in 1994.
I have since sent a message to the tree's owner asking for resurrection!
Jackie
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Don’t expect them to do anything or even oblige you with a reply!
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Hi
Ive found myself on 2 trees alive and well. For some reason neither had my sister on there. The first tree I found I was speaking to the guy about something else. As the people below grandad was listed as private, I asked who he has listed as it was either dad and me or my uncle and cousin. He went into detail about dad and then about me. Had to laugh at the end because he gave my name and birth date and then said but of course that's you.
Regards
Jon
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I recently took out a short term ancestry subscription (I only intend to have it for a month or 2) to try to chip away at some of the brick walls in my research.
So, there I was looking at someone's public member tree which included my ggg grandfather - I am trying to find out where he was born, parents etc - and thought I would check that this tree tallied with mine. I got down to my father, mother and then me.
Apparently I died in 1994.
I have since sent a message to the tree's owner asking for resurrection!
Jackie
Similar happened to me. I am still dead on their tree, they said that I did not provide enough evidence to prove that I am still alive. I generally just ignore errors in the trees of others unless they contact and ask me but this did upset me.
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I recently took out a short term ancestry subscription (I only intend to have it for a month or 2) to try to chip away at some of the brick walls in my research.
So, there I was looking at someone's public member tree which included my ggg grandfather - I am trying to find out where he was born, parents etc - and thought I would check that this tree tallied with mine. I got down to my father, mother and then me.
Apparently I died in 1994.
I have since sent a message to the tree's owner asking for resurrection!
Jackie
Similar happened to me. I am still dead on their tree, they said that I did not provide enough evidence to prove that I am still alive. I generally just ignore errors in the trees of others unless they contact and ask me but this did upset me.
So, Pharma, they suspected that your communication pointing out you were still living was a scam.
And believing you might have put their bank account at risk, since making you LIVING on the tree would have given you access to all their personal details to then pretend to be them and steal all their money?
Rather than be upset (as you are very much in the living world, thank goodness), you should have just sighed deeply. It's their loss, not yours. And their totally inaccurate tree, not yours.
If it'd been me I'd have asked THEM to prove you were dead by producing the death ref and scanned certificate. Idiots.
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Yikes!
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Pharma, just suggest you might HAUNT them if they don't correct their silly errors! Whhooooohooo!
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Hello everyone
Thank you for your responses. I think the threat of haunting sounds very interesting but I have just been informed that I have been resurrected.
I must admit that I wasn't expecting any response so I count that as a bonus.
Very much alive, Jackie
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In reply to the op
It seems that some people may put too much faith that the software on Ancestry can churn out.
I have an Ancestry tree that I am well aware contains errors but do not know to rectify them.
Apparently, I have a great uncle that died at Taplow, Saskatchewan.
There was I living under the misapprehension that it was a village near Maidenhead.
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In reply to the op
It seems that some people may put too much faith that the software on Ancestry can churn out.
I have an Ancestry tree that I am well aware contains errors but do not know to rectify them.
Apparently, I have a great uncle that died at Taplow, Saskatchewan.
There was I living under the misapprehension that it was a village near Maidenhead.
That happens when you fail to add county and country to a place name.
Remember Ancestry is a US software, and defaults to US places.
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Jackie
Why don't you put the information here and perhaps a Rootschatter can help you
Louisa Maud
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I think KGarad’s post explains the reason why.
Presently, I am not too fussed about the errors.
When I have more time on my hands than I know what to do with, or find some other reason to try and get things sorted, if I can’t get it fixed I will almost certainly ask for advice on this great forum.
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In reply to the op
It seems that some people may put too much faith that the software on Ancestry can churn out.
I have an Ancestry tree that I am well aware contains errors but do not know to rectify them.
Apparently, I have a great uncle that died at Taplow, Saskatchewan.
There was I living under the misapprehension that it was a village near Maidenhead.
That happens when you fail to add county and country to a place name.
Remember Ancestry is a US software, and defaults to US places.
I've had an issue with locations changing to the similarly named American places. The first time I spotted it I thought I'd made an error with the pull down box when entering the info on Ancestry. However I fixed it and the errors and the problem came back. I thought I was losing it, so when I fixed it again I screen shotted it and sure enough the error returned. And yes I made sure I had it in the format town, county, country. I don't have time and it's not interesting to go through my tree every day to see if there are new errors so at any one time there could be any number of such errors in my Ancestry tree.
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... and so say all of us, PharmaT! I too have had relatives translated to the USA and Australia, by that wonderful organisation Ancestry!
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My family find the story amusing.
I don't use ancestry normally - I find their assumptions annoying. I must admit that I have got a reply to each of my messages in the last couple of weeks whether the response was helpful or not.
Jackie :)