Lessons learnt: mistakes online

[Boongie Pam]

There has been plenty of threads talking about submitted info on the IGI and we've all shared the dafty stuff we've found. 

Well!  I am ashamed to say - I've done the same .  Though not on the IGI - I would never be so slack where I didn't have control.

I was looking through some 1901 census for families I've connected to my tree.  And I was checking extrapolated YOB to what I've collected on my Legacy file.

And I saw it - oh the shame...

I had a son and daughter born before the father and mother.  What a daft 'aputh. 

It came about because I keep my census images filed in folders like such

Census
   1841
   1851
   1861
   1871
      Somerset
      Annan
      Wigton
         <file named by family name>

I put a 1901 image in the 1871 folder and when I added the children to legacy I put estimated ages by deducting them from 1871 rather than 1901.

The worst part is, I put it in my webpages.  I've fixed it now but it just occured to me how easy it is to make daft mistakes.  AND then publish them!

Be aware be very aware!

A shamed,
Pam
 

[JillJ]

There is no shame in that Pam!   We are none of us perfect!

Jill

[Zelley]

Errors by our own hands. Well we have all done it,
So when we find errors by others be it registrations or transcriptions
how can we begin to complain.

[kerryb]

Absolutely Zelley

That is why I point out mistakes gently rather than a bull in a china shop approach.  We've all been there, we've all done that, we've all worn the T shirt.....

Kerry

[Simon G.]

That is why I point out mistakes gently rather than a bull in a china shop approach.

Always the best approach to take.  I had someone contact me once moaning on and on about how I'd made a mistake in my research (which was at the time on Rootweb's world connect thing).  Turns out she'd cocked up her research.  She felt a right idiot when she realised...
The lesson is, don't go on about other people's mistakes...eventually we'll all make our own, and look like right idiots for doing exactly what we were moaning about.

[kerryb]

The lesson is, don't go on about other people's mistakes...eventually we'll all make our own, and look like right idiots for doing exactly what we were moaning about.

A lesson I learnt at a very early age and have tried not to repeat too often!!!!!

Kerry

[downside]

I'm not sure how you managed to do that.

Most genealogy software would that point out to you that you had made a mistake and check whether you really want to go ahead with your action.

Is it a Legacy software thing?

downside

[Lloydy]

Most genealogy software would that point out to you that you had made a mistake and check whether you really want to go ahead with your action.

I use Generations and I get a warning if dates are wrong.


Jan

[kerryb]

I get a cute message with mine that tells me
'Are you sure that is the right date, birth after father's death'

I can hear the doh as it says it!!!

Kerry