Geneanet trees now coming up as suggestions on Ancestry

[phil57]

Because as Ancestry say, any changes "usually take about a month or more to be reflected in the search index".

[veekaye]

I have seen Geneanet trees appearing as hints on Ancestry, but unfortunately they are of dubious accuracy.  Only yesterday I found an aunt’s death recorded as 1980, when I actually attended her funeral in 1999.  The big problem here is that about 15 Ancestry trees have happily copied the incorrect information - no proof recorded in any of them.  It is frustrating to see this, and I have no idea how this can be corrected. 

[coombs]

The amount of times I have seen hints on Ancestry being accepted when it soon transpires it is another couple of the same name, such as it is established a John and Mary Hamilton were having children in Cromer, Norfolk in the 1770s, then an Ancestry user has accepted a hint of a Charles Hamilton buried in Truro, Cornwall in 1772 son of "John and Mary Hamilton". 99.999% chance it is a totally different couple, so you need to show some very compelling evidence that it was the same couple. If in the unlikely event the Cornwall burial of Charles Hamilton had said "Son of John and Mary Hamilton, Father a mariner of Cromer, Norfolk" then I would accept it.

Geneanet trees are of course no more accurate than Anc trees and I never accept any hints until I check for myself.

[martin hooper]

It's too late to correct all the faults now. There are too many (millions?) of them in ancestry and geneanet trees. Never accept hints as facts. Do your own research.

Martin

[davisd]

It's too late to correct all the faults now. There are too many (millions?) of them in ancestry and geneanet trees. Never accept hints as facts. Do your own research.

Martin

It's not just hint. Births, deaths, marriages all appear with nary a document or record. What's the point of research if it's undocumented? I can be maddening.

[coombs]

And we have all seen the trees on Ancestry which has someone in the 1851 census who died in 1720.