Don't people realise how much it hurts

[Rishile]

I have just been looking through some family trees on Ance**ry to see if any of my immediate family are on are anybody else's tree.

I found a tree with someone on there with the same name as my mother - strange enough because my mother's name was quite unusual - but the woman was born about 40 miles away from where my mother was born, a couple of years earlier and married a couple of years earlier than my mother to a different man from my father and in a different area.  She also had different parents.  No problem.

So, how come she had my mother's death record? 

I know it's a simple mistake but it hurts.   

Rishile

[mofid42]

Hi Rishlie

Know the feeling....I was alerted by member connect that someone had saved the same baptismal record to someone I had on my tree but when I looked the person they had attached it to wasn't the same person as my ancestor.... they had attached it to a married woman and the surname on the baptismal record was her married name not her maiden name!
MOIRA

[maidmarianoops]

could it be that your mum had married someone earlier than your dad

strange things did happen

sylvia

[Rishile]

could it be that your mum had married someone earlier than your dad

strange things did happen

sylvia

I've just looked at the tree again and they have her maiden name as the same as my mother's married name but the person on the tree has my mother's death record (I know it's my mother's - I registered it).  Although the person on the tree was married, according to the tree, her death was registered in her maiden name.

Rishile

[Nick29]

It can be difficult when it's a close relative, I know, but I'm sure it was a simple mistake  

[Rishile]

It can be difficult when it's a close relative, I know, but I'm sure it was a simple mistake  

I'm sure it was Nick.  Maybe I'm being a bit sensitive because of the time of year.

Rishile

[Emjaybee]

My   Relatives are recorded in the census from 1841 to 1911 in the same UK village, yet some Anc's insist on listing them in a similar town name in USA.

Some people collect thousands of names regardless of any proof, tens of thousands in some trees.

It is a shame you were upset, think of these people as morons.

Best wishes for Christmas.

Mike

[robbo43]

My   Relatives are recorded in the census from 1841 to 1911 in the same UK village, yet some Anc's insist on listing them in a similar town name in USA.

This is an Ancestry problem, in some cases if you don't tell it the village is in England the system assumes it is  in America and picks an American settlement of the same name.

Doesn't excuse name chasers or those who blindly accept Ancestry "hints" without checking them though.

Robert

[Gillg]

I received an Ancestry "hint", although I'm only a guest member, and amongst other entries found my own name on a tree.  I then edited the entry to read "living person", so it now stops at my parents, who are both dead.  The other entries are correct and can be found in public records anyway.  I guess the person who invited me to be a guest member and who is distantly related to me has added my family to his, which is fair enough.  I did allow him to see my tree on GR, after all.

Gillg