Ancestry Hints which have no relation to the person they are giving the hint for

[jim234j]

Lately I have been getting hints from Ancestry that seem to have no relationship at all to the person they are giving the hint for and the hint is not even the right surname.

I am tracing a John Emmanuel Griffin born 1827 Brede Sussex.  He married Sarah Gustell of Brede 30 May 1847 in Brede and they had many children and spent the rest of their life together in Sussex

Ancestry gives me the following hint for him 3 times and this is not the only person they have given hints that seem to have relationship at all.  I have ticked on the area where you say why you did not accept the hint and have done it on many occasions with different people in my tree.

England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973
Birth, Marriage & Death
Name   John Wadsworth   
Birth   1823   
Marriage   15 Apr 1857 Saint Michael, Stone, Stafford, England   New
Residence   Stone, Staffordshire, England   New
Spouse   Sarah Morris   
Father   John Wadsworth   


Does anyone else get clues that are not even the name of the person you get them under as John Wadsworth of Stone Staffordshire has no relationship at all to John Emmanuel Griffin of Brede Sussex and no relationship to anyone on my tree.

Jim

[rosie99]

Does anyone else get clues that are not even the name of the person you get them under as John Wadsworth of Stone Staffordshire has no relationship at all to John Emmanuel Griffin of Brede Sussex and no relationship to anyone on my tree.

Jim

Frequently 

[martin hooper]

I also get unrelated hints. I don't waste my time with hints unless I have particularly difficult problem I'm trying to solve.

Martin

[Biggles50]

It has been happening for years.

Most of mine relate are people in the damn US of A who just happen to have the same name as one of my mainly British Isles Family Tree members.

It really annoys me when Searching and “UK & Ireland” is selected yet the search results are mainly people who are resident in that damn US of A again.

[Wexflyer]

It has been happening for years.

Most of mine relate are people in the damn US of A who just happen to have the same name as one of my mainly British Isles Family Tree members.

It really annoys me when Searching and “UK & Ireland” is selected yet the search results are mainly people who are resident in that damn US of A again.

Because everyone knows that the Brits all escaped if they could!

[Kiltpin]

It has been happening for years.

Most of mine relate are people in the damn US of A who just happen to have the same name as one of my mainly British Isles Family Tree members.

It really annoys me when Searching and “UK & Ireland” is selected yet the search results are mainly people who are resident in that damn US of A again.

 

Yes - one or two hits of information that I know and have recorded. Then pages and pages of people who are total strangers. Yesterday they served up 10 people who were from Eastern Europe. In fact, so far east that one more step would have taken them into Asia. All with names that had letters that are not on my keyboard. 

Regards 

Chas

[Wexflyer]

Yes - one or two hits of information that I know and have recorded. Then pages and pages of people who are total strangers. Yesterday they served up 10 people who were from Eastern Europe. In fact, so far east that one more step would have taken them into Asia. All with names that had letters that are not on my keyboard. 

Regards 

Chas

Didn't you get the memo about diversity and inclusion? 

[coombs]

All the time and this has been going on for years now. I even look at my Ancestry tree and look at an individual ancestor and get "Potential parents" for documented ancestors, and they are usually wrong. Or get an 1851 census suggestion for someone who died in 1797.

[Erato]

"people in the damn US of A "

I'm not sure why the United States should be repeatedly damned by you for having people with the same name as some of your British relatives.