Ancestry tree rubbish

[bevj]

Just found this cracker

 

Edward

Undeniable proof that there is life after death!   
Bev

[rayard]

One tree says my 3xgt grandfather was born forty years after his mother died, and fifty years after his father died! Trouble is so many have blindly copied.

[aghadowey]

I've just been told by a cousin that 'according to Ancestry' our Irish great-grandmother was born in Cornwall, England and not Ireland   
I also know from Ancestry trees that my father died several years ago (complete with gravestone picture so it must be true, right?) which is strange since I talk to him about once a week (last time on Saturday) and he's never mentioned it 

[iluleah]

I also know from Ancestry trees that my father died several years ago (complete with gravestone picture so it must be true, right?) which is strange since I talk to him about once a week (last time on Saturday) and he's never mentioned it 

  although that is something that could have really upset you, or your dad.

With so much rubbish now online all classified as 'ancestry'... 'records'...'genealogy'.... I can understand why so many newbies seem to think all and any of it is 'real' and often because they see the same nonsense repeated over and over again.

[Finley 1]

I know and appreciate how hilarious all this is..

BUT it actually is Proof -- that there is NO PROOF  -- out there

chinese whispers  - spelling mistakes - idiotic copying - etc etc etc.. 

Means unless you where there and heard or saw the occasion how on.....(.. is it earth)  do you actually know you have it correct.

xin

[Top-of-the-hill]

   I have only just taken out a short sub to Ancestry, and only because I did a DNA test. I have already found several of these nonsenses. Before I closed it in disgust, I was looking at a collateral branch in Australia. They had lots of children, alternating between Australia and random places in Kent.
   But as Xin said, there is a little voice saying "Have I got it right, though"!

[coombs]

If I had a pound for every namesake cousin born within days of one another (or weeks) who has been mixed up I'd be owning Trump Tower.  Usually sons of 2 brothers. That probably causes a lot of Ancestry tree mix ups as well.

[Gadget]

Fake news

 

[Edward Scott]

Surely it is fake history