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My several times Great Aunt -   Fanny Shufflebotham. I still laugh out loud whenever I see it.

Today I have found an Amphillis Russell who has a daughter and grand daughter named Amphillis Willets.

Descendent of Amphillis are Uriah and Enoch Hill. 

It's disappointing isn't it? When you find something that looks like the answer to all your questions, it's natural to hope it is correct. It's probably a good thing to find conflicting trees, since you might not have questioned their validity if you'd just found one of them.
 

Yes, so disappointing, but it has only been in my tree for a day so no long lasting problems. 

I am researching the Russell (Russil) family of Rowley Regis, Staffs, UK. The first Russell in my tree is an Amphillis Russell (abt 1704- abt 1778). As it is such an unusual name, I did a search for her name in various searches and came across an article on a Morgan family website about her family showing her marriage to my ancestor, Joseph Willets - so we are talking about the same person. The article had a list of sources which included wills of the family and The Gentleman’s Magazine Vol 54 1784
Article link; https://www.morganfourman.com/articles/benjamin-willetts/

I found the The Gentleman’s Magazine Vol 54 1784 online - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015013465888&view=1up&seq=441&skin=2021&q1=russell

On page 889 is a tree showing the ancestors of Amphillis Russell drawn up by John Harrison, Norroy King of Arms in 1784. At this time, Amphillis was either near the end of her life or had recently passed away so it seems as if the information would be likely to be correct.

I entered the family tree into my Ancestry tree, expecting to find documentary evidence of this tree, but instead Amphillis is listed as having different parents on a baptism at the correct time and there are very few hints (and those that are there do not support this tree)  or mainly not coming up at all in hints or searches.

So my question is, did the person who drew this tree up just make it up??? Or are there many documents missing on Ancestry??? Of course there are many trees on Ancestry which are all identical and which take Amphillis's ancestry back through a completely different route but I am wary just to accept that.

Many thanks!

Thanks again, just done it and it was soo easy, I feel daft not to have found it myself! 

I registered for Ancestry some years ago and started a tree. My membership lapsed and I went back to Ancestry about 2 years ago and did a DNA test. I then started several new trees in Ancestry, for different lines and for my husband. When Thru Lines started it used my original tree from years ago which doesn't have all my research.

So my question is, does anyone know how to change the tree that Thru Lines uses?

Many thanks!