Impossible births

[Hotice56]

Love that song Viktoria will be singing it all day now lol

[Viktoria]

A group from Oldham “ The Fivepenny Piece “
Also “The Rochdale Cowboy”  Mike Harding .

“ He’s my brother Sylvest ,
He’s got a row of forty medals on his chest
He seeks no rest “!etc
Viktoria.

[lydiaann]

Loved 'em both, Viktoria.  In fact, I still have a Five Penny Piece CD (transferred years ago from an LP).  'Matchstick Men' has taken me right back to Blackburn in the late 40s/early 50s and thus to an impulse to find my 2xGGparents...with Taylor, Whittaker and Butterworth being the most common names in Lancs in the 19th century, and with all of them inter-marrying and finally producing me, it's been a mission since I started in this extremely addictive pastime in 2008!!  I think I'll just put on that CD while I squirrel around the many records later today!

[ALAMO2008]

It annoys me when People just copy Ancestry Hints as Facts without using their Brains to sift the Hint.
Had one Person who downloaded the Relative on the Voters List aged just 6
Usually it's mostly Americans that people seem to copy everything.
When I tried to help one, she called me arrogant and rude when I pointed out my Relative did not marry her Relative when he was just 7 years old.
Those with Huge numbers in their Tree get me.
Been doing this 20 years now just 4000 in my Tree Certificates for Hundreds of them.
Saw one Tree the other week 14000 records and they had only been on Ancestry 6 months not one Certificate.
These people who think they are saving money by only researching using Ancestry and sending for no Certificates
Don't they realise they are wasting money on their Ancestry Subscription by pretending to Research and inventing a Fictitious Family History not even theirs in many cases.  - Rant over - Sorry

[Viktoria]

No need to apologise, I feel some people just want as many names as possible in their trees, I would rather find out as much as possible about closer rellies.
I blew my top a while back ,I think it was when William The Conqueror appeared ,
but the” researcher” had no facts about people who at that time-  ( some years ago) were still in living memories of descendants .
I want to know about THEM, not just bare dates etc.

A family tree is rubbish if there are inaccuracies ,mistakes can be made in all innocence ,but to latch on to someone on slight proof ie name only is daft .
Rant on, you speak for many when you do .

But don’t pop my bubble of belief that Robin Hood was my ggggggg ggggggggggggggggrandad!
Viktoria.

[coombs]

I do find it vexing when people just accept Ancestry hints about the birth, baptism, marriage or burial or a mutual ancestor.

For instance the ancestor dies in Suffolk in 1852 but is then on the 1871 census in Gloucestershire.

[Caliandris]

As we're having a general rant (!) I am frequently annoyed by the fact the Ancestry algorithm *suggests* these impossible births.  I was searching for someone born in 1652 yesterday and had many many results in the 1752-1854 range of parish records. Yeah, sure, born in 1652, marriage in 1760, makes sense! 

I know that sometimes someone somewhere will have made a mistake about the birth or death of their ancestor and may suddenly stumble on a record which makes sense to them...but 99% of the time they're just dross you have to wade through when looking for an actual record that fits the date.

[brigidmac]

I'm sure I have some of these mistakes on documents which  I copied when had eye problems and before I could read original

I wonder if the documents are still attached
Hopefully I changed dates back to logical ones
On  life story

I am  grateful if anyone points out a mistake but understand reluctance  to do so if you e had rude responses in past

[Crumblie]

I think the Ancestry algorithm takes in to account the number of people who believe a hint and add it to their tree, the more that do the more the algorithm thinks it is correct.