Amusing tree on Ancestry

[bradburyd]

I once saw one that went back to Adam & Eve!!! It was clearly deficient since Eve wasn't descended from Ada's rib!!!

[Rosinish]

I once saw one that went back to Adam & Eve!!! It was clearly deficient since Eve wasn't descended from Ada's rib!!!

So not a bone of truth 

Annie

[Flattybasher9]

Perhaps the owner of that one has had a bit of "ribbing" since.

Malky

[davidft]

I have messaged her to say that i’ve been sent a hint to one of the children in her tree, and was interested to see her other husbands and many children.

I’ll let you know if she responds 😀

I hope she does respond.

It is very easy to get in an almighty mess on Ancestry and end up with someone marrying the same person several times or marrying several different people when what you intended was just to add one person once.

Still if she does respond and admit she is in a muddle and doesn't know how to sort it out then there appear to be several people in this thread who could use their expertise to get her back on track

[Deirdre784]

Indeed, it’s certainly a shame (if it’s not true of course), given that she (like so many descendants of people who emigrated) has some amazing photos of the family, even if they aren’t the ones I’m researching 🙄

[Deirdre784]

Had a reply from the tree owner.....

‘Oh do ill have to fix that thankyou’

[Johnf04]

I've been chasing down a gentleman who married one of my great aunts in 1943, and I found 2 trees which had him born in the USA, marrying my relative in England, and dying in England. They are quite plausible - his birth year is right on the American censuses they include, and his name is almost the same. Some digging, though, found a death for him in Massachusetts. I also found him on the 1939 register in England- the corrections on his record are not included in the transcription, making him hard to find. The other trees have him on the 1940 American census.

I still can't find him before 1939, though, and I think he had been adopted.

[jaybelnz]

I think that beginners must get very excited about the Ancestry TV adverts about hints etc., and just don't get the idea that they're only hints, not facts!  When I started off a friends tree for her, with only her parents and children, she took it over with huge enthusiasm, and before I knew it a week later she was back to me to show me how well she had done with her tree!  She'd gone back 4 generations???, (or at least she thought she had). 

[philipsearching]

I have discovered a new illness.  Or, to be more accurate - I haven't discovered it, I just came up with a name for it.  Perhaps when I complete the definition I should submit it to medical journals.

TREETRUSTER SYNDROME
An affliction affecting many inexperienced family researchers.  Symptoms include:
1) A belief that information posted on online trees must be accurate.
2) A lack of knowledge about finding and using original sources.
3) Uncritical acceptance of the fantasy that an ancestor can die before she is born, marry her grandfather, have five or more husbands at the same time, give birth to fifty or more children and live to an age of over 200.

Fortunately, there is a simple and easy cure for this syndrome - join ROOTSCHAT.

Philip