One of Ancestry's hints led me to a tree of an American woman, where yet again the person had obviously copied wrong information, linking my g.grandfather to family A that has nothing to do with my ancestor and someone who has a direct link to family A has done a DNA test which shows there is no match. I contacted this American to ask her if she would kindly remove the information she had on her tree which related to my g.grandfather. I know family A has a man of the same name but he is not my grandfather. He is a couple or so years younger and the direct ancestor has researched and found he never left London, whereas my g.grandfather went to Hull, where he lived for over 50 years, dying there too.
Firstly I got a response on the lines of how dare I question her tree. I wrote back explaining why the information was wrong. She said she had done her DNA and that would prove she was right. Guess what - no link with my DNA. So I wrote to her again and said she had obviously found the information on another tree rather than researching it herself - red rag to a bull
Today, I got another reply saying it was no business of mine if she had the information about my g.grandfather on her tree.
What? Now she's blocked me so I can't respond! She obviously knows she's wrong and that she's copied wrong info from another Ancestry tree - and there are lots of them, plus she has 35,674 people on her tree - I wonder how many of those she's copied from other trees, either rightly or wrongly. Of course, this wrong information is spread all over Ancestry. Sad really because in the future, another ancestor of my g.grandfather may be looking for answers as to their origins and find all these trees and think that because there are so many with the same info it must be correct. I know who put up the wrong information originally (a distant relative) and she removed it as soon as I asked her to, but it was too late the damage was done.
Actually, I have had a few DNA matches who link to each other too and having researched their family trees, either by myself or with their help, they all lead to the same Jewish ancestor. However, I can't find the missing link to prove which of the children/grandchildren of the ancestor is my g.grandfather's parent. My feeling is he was illegitimate and his birth not registered.