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Offline andrewalston

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Re: Ancestry tree rubbish
« Reply #108 on: Monday 12 November 18 12:05 GMT (UK) »
You've no chance now!

THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!

Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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« Reply #109 on: Monday 12 November 18 17:49 GMT (UK) »
This one needs no additional comment(s) :)

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Scott - Lincolnshire
Jobson - Lincolnshire, Suffolk
Needham - Lincolnshire
Wayet - Lincolnshire

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« Reply #110 on: Monday 12 November 18 17:55 GMT (UK) »
and now the 'mother'
Scott - Lincolnshire
Jobson - Lincolnshire, Suffolk
Needham - Lincolnshire
Wayet - Lincolnshire

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Re: Ancestry tree rubbish
« Reply #111 on: Monday 12 November 18 23:13 GMT (UK) »
Some people just can't wait for the right age. :P


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« Reply #112 on: Monday 12 November 18 23:57 GMT (UK) »
Well, I've just found one that has my parents on it - wrong birth dates and death dates and places of death. They've even got a link to an even older version of  them in the 1881 census, when they were in their 30s. ( I must be ever so old, if those are they!)

Actually, they happen to be my father's great uncle and his wife, who happened to have the same names.

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Re: Ancestry tree rubbish
« Reply #113 on: Sunday 18 November 18 17:05 GMT (UK) »
Never trust a Family Tree!

Getting married before you can talk and walk  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D and Marriage at 2 or 5 years old.

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« Reply #114 on: Wednesday 21 November 18 05:58 GMT (UK) »
Hi all
Hope this isn't too off topic.  If it is, please accept my apologies.

I totally agree that there is a LOT of rubbish on Ancestry to the point where I am becoming very disillusioned with the site - serious researchers are thin on the ground.  I have privatised my tree to stop people randomly copying my 30 years of research to add to their rubbish family tree claims but if anyone contacts me with a legitimate connection, I am always happy to give them access. 

I had one woman who linked into my line via a Joseph Gray.  Trouble was there were 2 Joseph Grays born in the same quarter at same location.  I guess she liked my research because it was done for her,  so she adopted my line as her family.  I knew she had the wrong family and went to the trouble of tracking down the holder of a marriage certificate which would confirm she was on the wrong track.  I emailed her re this and she thanked me.  And what happened - three years of emailing her and she still likes my family more!!  I don't object to this so much as the fact that novices come along and replicate her error.  And I believe therein lies the problem - inexperienced researchers. 

Ancestry is good for the source documents which is why I continue to subscribe.  However, can anyone recommend a site where researchers are more professional?

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Chris

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Re: Ancestry tree rubbish
« Reply #115 on: Wednesday 21 November 18 08:21 GMT (UK) »
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« Reply #116 on: Wednesday 21 November 18 09:01 GMT (UK) »
I got around the problem by contacting the tree owner and asking for access.  Because they are not overly familiar I asked for Editor access and then said I would tidy their tree up for them so I then removed all the rubbish connected with my lineage - left the rest of the rubbish alone.

I then messaged again and said sorry no connection but that I had amended some entries that I could see were incorrect.  I also said that they could then just change my access to Guest.

Solved my irritating probem!

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