Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors

[nashua]

I agree with Erato. My tree on Ancestry does not include sources but I have them all in my personal records and would be happy to share the sources with anyone who contacts me.

[Galium]

When the 'hints' are to family trees you have the option to review and discard them or just ignore them completely?
It only takes a second.

That is something I find annoying about Ancestry hints.  I like to get rid of any that I don't need or are wrong for the person they are attached to, which is easy for individual resource hints.
 The family tree hints however,  are all or nothing: you can't single out any particular one to keep in case you want to refer to it later, and also discard any that are useless for one reason or another.

[tillypeg]

 The family tree hints however,  are all or nothing: you can't single out any particular one to keep in case you want to refer to it later, and also discard any that are useless for one reason or another.

I think if you click on the name of the tree that you might be interested in, then Bookmark it/add it to your Favourites, then you can refer back to it later.  I've done that with several to check some of their "facts" for myself.

[Galium]

Thanks for that.  I might find it useful, but I wish Ancestry would just let me ditch the wrong ones without me having to make special arrangements to keep the ones I'm interested in.  I'm sure they could if they tried.

[Kiltpin]

I like the Ancestry hints. Stuff that is wrong or implausible, I discard straight away. But it is the hints that aren't a hint that I find valuable. The little throw away items - that he had children, or siblings that I knew nothing about. Or sometimes the very specific place of death - "No 37  Hurn Crescent, off Talbot Road, Flat 4c. 

I like them and long may they continue. 

Regards 

Chas

[Nanna52]

What annoys me most about the hints is that they presume everyone is linked to America.  The number of times I have had hints suggesting that my ag labs or labourers whipped across to USA for some significant event then back again to England or Australia for the next event amazes me.  One of these days I’ll get caught by someone who did do that, but for now I just delete all American hints.

[KGarrad]

I find that almost all hints are useless!
I gave up looking at hints a few years ago - currently 9112 hints in my tree

[tillypeg]

I was made an Editor of an Ancestry tree years ago following contact with the owner but have never taken up that role.  Looking at the tree now, there are 9,817 people on it, with hints of 33,869 for 7,595 of those people.  The owner of that tree obviously doesn't bother looking at the hints at all.

[coombs]

I like the Ancestry hints. Stuff that is wrong or implausible, I discard straight away. But it is the hints that aren't a hint that I find valuable. The little throw away items - that he had children, or siblings that I knew nothing about. Or sometimes the very specific place of death - "No 37  Hurn Crescent, off Talbot Road, Flat 4c. 

I like them and long may they continue. 

Regards 

Chas

I agree, some of the hints are useful. I found a 2nd baptism for my Oxford born great gran, in London, she lived in a convent for a short time. The details on the baptism confirmed it was her. Her mother was called Thirza, a rare first name at the time.