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24. Too many "errors"
Thu Dec 5, 2013, 06:13 PM
Dec 2013

The worst one I've found says my grgrgrandparents were not the parents of three of their children!



I've about had it w/ancestry.com!

Thanks for the reminder! I am plan to not renew my subscription w/them at the end of this month.

It is beyond irritating at this point.

One woman (whom I spoke with once) is a 3rd cousin to my late cousin in SF. She keeps trying to get my attention by doing stupid crap like changing the spelling of the name of my great grandmother's sister (so I see everything she does that relates to my family). *hint* *hint* and no, it is not going to work w/me as I want nothing at all to do w/this woman as I am NOT related to her techinically!

There is another one now too -- and OMG, her real surname is a real humdinger! I will not post it here online but OMG again! All I will say is this much -- if I had a surname like that I'd change it to just about anything but ...

So, yep, I'm done with them and all of their "errors" which only create more errors and the show goes on ...

NOT GOOD.

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Does this happen often? Unfortunately, it appears that the answer is "Yes." AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2012 #1
The Decorah Norwegian Heritage Genealogiest deemed "Interent Genealogy is kickysnana Sep 2012 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author seaglass Sep 2012 #3
I let myself be led completely off track on one of my maternal branches polly7 Sep 2012 #4
something similar happened to me grasswire Sep 2012 #7
Can't always rely on books retrogal Sep 2012 #10
This happened to me with one of my maternal lines. AverageJoe90 Nov 2013 #21
When researching it is usually the researchers responsibility to use the generation rules to check jwirr Sep 2012 #5
They have a function that allows you to submit corrections to census indexing errors. kestrel91316 Sep 2012 #6
Yes CountAllVotes Sep 2012 #8
Oh no!! retrogal Sep 2012 #9
Frankly it irritates me CountAllVotes Sep 2012 #11
I understand... retrogal Sep 2012 #12
same here CountAllVotes Sep 2012 #13
I love Ancestry to a point, but damn those trees GobBluth Sep 2012 #14
I have decided to do this: only accept public records as truth grasswire Sep 2012 #16
Yes, this. /|\ PAMod Sep 2012 #19
even that can be annoying... grasswire Sep 2012 #20
Not with their user-submitted trees they don't Spider Jerusalem Sep 2012 #15
No and the user submitted trees are usually terrible kdmorris Sep 2012 #17
Hey, I'm dead! PatSeg Sep 2012 #18
Like some of the others... pipi_k Nov 2013 #22
I use the trees at ancestry as a first source... icymist Dec 2013 #23
Too many "errors" CountAllVotes Dec 2013 #24
I would use the user submitted trees as clues, not sources. OnionPatch Mar 2014 #25
Up to each editor of a tree and viewers to inform of any mistakes. I've come applegrove Mar 2014 #26
I sometimes write a message to one who has entered an egregious mistake - No Vested Interest Mar 2014 #27
I did that pipi_k Mar 2014 #28
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