error on own tree

[wini]

I have just started to re-look at the early part of my research and discovered I have made a mistake. Nothing too dramatic but I suppose I might find some more. Do others check back on their early research?

wini

[reeves_colin]

wini

I started off my research and fell in to the trap of following other family trees on Ancestry.
Got my paternal family tree back to late 1600's in no time.
Only when I started to fill in more details of marriage records did I find that one generation b early 1800's fathers name on marriage records was different.
Deleted about 6 generations off the tree and re-tracked my own research.
Lost a few generations, but far more interesting and satisfying to have your own research and evidence at hand.

Thanks to some fantastic help from people on this forum, I have a much more detailed tree now, but not quite as far back..

Easy to follow other people's errors as well as your own...

good luckwith your continued research

Colin

[bullet]

I'm always checking, especially when my ancestors are made up of 'Browns', 'Robinsons', 'Adams' and 'Rees'.  My one major gaff was when I skipped a marriage cert to keep costs down, (because it was a small town in country Australia in the mid 1800's) and followed it back a couple of generations.

It was only when I was talking to some elderly relatives that a g-g grandmother was alive at a certain time that I double checked.  What bad luck was there to have two Elizabeth Browns, getting married, in the same small country town, in the same year.  I went and purchased the marriage cert and a whole new family came to light.

I also never follow other people's trees, - I just use them to check their research against mine.

[wini]

No I didn't follow anyone else just my oen stupid mistake.
I think at the beginning I was just trying too hard.

wini

[rosie17]

Think we are all guilty of making mistakes I always check other tree's and it's amazing the mistakes I find .....I get people taking pictures off mine and adding it to theirs without thinking never mind it keeps us all busy 

[sami]

I recheck - especially the research done years ago. I didn't always think to look at things like witness names, address at time of marriage etc., so I often find bits of 'new' information when I look back over the older things. 

[wini]

I am now going to go through and recheck everything and since I have managed to find more detail will add it to my tree.
I have 2 blank spots and no matte what I check I can't find them.
Will  repost on the Scotland and Ireland sites and see if anyone can give me any fresh inspiration
wini

 

[rosie17]

Was just going to say Wini why don't you post details and maybe we can help 

[eadaoin]

I recheck - especially the research done years ago. I didn't always think to look at things like witness names, address at time of marriage etc., so I often find bits of 'new' information when I look back over the older things. 

no errors (said she cofidently-ish)- most of my tree was done before there was much on-line stuff, so the only way was slogging through records carefully.

Like sami, I keep rechecking, to see if inspiration will strike, and it sometimes does.

The only undocumented stuff is OH's distant cousins - we DO know the link is there, and that it's around 1830, and they know from grandma where it is,( but it will never be documented, as the records are gone)

eadaoin