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Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« Reply #81 on: Wednesday 01 November 23 15:43 GMT (UK) »
You don't have to contact the owner - just add a comment to your father's record, giving the correct information, with some corroboration.  I've done that loads of times.  The onus is then back in their court.  :-*  BUT others can then have an alternative.
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Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« Reply #82 on: Friday 03 November 23 21:27 GMT (UK) »
FindMyPast Fridays has released a bunch of Westmoreland records which will be helpful for those with ancestors from the county.

As we know you can get errors in the original records such as one ancestor of mine said he was a native of Dent, Westmoreland, but it was far NW Yorkshire at the time and near the border of Westmoreland. Those very handy Barrington registers for Co Durham are good, as it showed my previously suspected Scottish roots as well as the Dent ancestor.

I have occasionally seen instances of Haverhill, Essex instead of the correct Haverhill, Suffolk due to being near the border of Suffolk and Essex.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« Reply #83 on: Saturday 04 January 25 18:10 GMT (UK) »
Just curious, what's the general feeling about letting others know about glaring errors in their Family Trees when you come across them ?

Looking on Ancestry today, and it really is a pit of errors, and came across one such Tree with an apparent family connection. My ancestor Charles Boulton was born 1756 (verified with Parish Records) and buried May 1806 (again verified with Parish Record). The other tree howeve had the death as being July 1841 (per GRO), however a quick look on GRO reveals that said death in 1841 was of a Charles Boulton aged 1.

Personally I'd welcome any such corrections, but it does seem that many seem to see their Trees as more of a numbers game, I even came across another today that was baptised two years before he was born.

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Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« Reply #84 on: Saturday 04 January 25 18:41 GMT (UK) »
I also would be glad to know if I had made an error. Unfortunately, no matter how politely you inform someone that they may have made an error, you are invariably ignored or get a rude response. I recently sent a message to someone politely pointing out that they had mixed up two families of the same name, one in Essex and the other in Dorset.

I supplied all the correct details and directed them to the correct parish records, to which they obviously had access, some images were already on their tree. There has been absolutely no response although they have been on  Ancestry almost every day since. They also state they are willing to collaborate and help others.  ::)

CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.


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Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« Reply #85 on: Saturday 04 January 25 19:03 GMT (UK) »
I even had one who said their professional researcher confirmed it is the same guy, when I have found my own evidence to strongly refute it, and it is another guy with the same name, living 30 miles away.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« Reply #86 on: Saturday 04 January 25 21:12 GMT (UK) »
I would welcome corrections, but since my trees are private this is unlikely to happen!  :-)  I think some errors are almost inevitable and I admit to having a few where the baptism appears to be before the birth.  This is because I have taken a birth year from a census, before finding a baptism, and have not always done the necessary correction.   If I find a tree with errors I put a polite note to that effect in the hope that other people might think twice before copying.
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Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« Reply #87 on: Saturday 04 January 25 21:58 GMT (UK) »
I even had one who said their professional researcher confirmed it is the same guy, when I have found my own evidence to strongly refute it, and it is another guy with the same name, living 30 miles away.

Early on a cousin paid a professional researcher.  He shared it with me.  It took me a while but I eventually disproved that research, with help of Rootschatters and DNA. 
James -Victoria, Australia originally from Keynsham, Somerset.
Janes - Keynsham and Bristol area.
Heale/Hale - Keynsham, Somerset
Vincent - Illogan/Redruth, Cornwall.  Moved to Sculcoates, Yorkshire; Grass Valley, California; Timaru, New Zealand and Victoria, Australia.
Williams somewhere in Wales - he kept moving
Ellis - Anglesey

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Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« Reply #88 on: Saturday 04 January 25 23:42 GMT (UK) »
The only time I employed a “Professional “ researcher was many years ago, I wanted to find information on my maternal grandfather, mainly about service in the  Boer War. I had a photo of him wearing the Queen SA medal with clasps. I supplied his full name, date and place  of birth with full names of parents. His number, rank,  date, place and cause of death and place of burial, including a photo of his grave.

In return I received information relating to another man who, apart from having the same name and also serving in the Royal Engineers, bore no relation to any of the information I had supplied about my grandfather. He had a different wife and was still alive after my grandfather had died. When I disputed the researcher’s findings, the response was, what he found was correct and my grandfather must have been a bigamist. And he never served in the Boer War.

Years later when the medal rolls were available on Ancestry, I found my grandfather listed as having the Queen SA medal along with the various clasps.

Because he died in service his Army records  were destroyed, but I have managed to build quite a detailed record of his service, including time spent in Ireland and the years he spent in the War Office in London before being posted back to South Africa where he died in 1916.

I much prefer to rely on my own research.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« Reply #89 on: Sunday 05 January 25 00:33 GMT (UK) »
I also would be glad to know if I had made an error. Unfortunately, no matter how politely you inform someone that they may have made an error, you are invariably ignored or get a rude response. I recently sent a message to someone politely pointing out that they had mixed up two families of the same name, one in Essex and the other in Dorset.

I supplied all the correct details and directed them to the correct parish records, to which they obviously had access, some images were already on their tree. There has been absolutely no response although they have been on  Ancestry almost every day since. They also state they are willing to collaborate and help others.  ::)

I appreciate being notified if any legitimate error/s are found in my branch of the tree. Mistakes happen in all family trees, especially when records are scarce for a particular family. I’d much rather be informed and correct the error - plus it can occationally help break through a brick wall by pointing toward the right information.
NORTON (Kent), KEECH (Dorset), MOOR / MOORE (Kent), HOCKING (Dorset / Somerset), LEVI (City of York), SANDWELL (Kent), CHAFFIN  (Dorset / Somerset), STRONG (Dorset)