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The Common Room / Ancestor Collector
« on: Thursday 01 January 26 13:44 GMT (UK)  »
Happy new Year everyone.
I am sure, we all have people who incorrectly include our ancestors in their trees, usually a mistake  by an inexperienced researcher when their ancestor has a similar name.
However, it has reached the stage that a large number of hints I get from  Ancestry originate from the same person, who is not remotely related to me.  I first became aware of him copying my father's family from my tree and those of paternal relatives but now he has moved on to my maternal relatives as well. His tree has been taken down now but included all of my great grandparents so I feel I am being cloned.
I do feel uncomfortable about this invasion of privacy and upset when I receive hints about my own father. I did ask Ancestry what could be done.  Nothing, of course.  Some people just have an aim to have the largest tree in the world and this guy found he was on a roll with my family.
Why do I get so many picture hints from him, you may ask?  He attaches a picture of a coat of arms to go with every surname.  This means that everyone he has pinched from my tree or a cousin's tree has had a picture attached which generates a hint. 
My solution was to make my tree private but that was too late and rather ruins my chances with co-operating with any dna matches that i might have.
Has anyone else had the same problem?

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Cheshire Lookup Requests / Re: Samuel Stubbs Macclesfield
« on: Wednesday 17 December 25 21:32 GMT (UK)  »
Yes they were both baptised Macclesfield St Michael.  Samuel with a double b and William with a single b.
I tried to find Emma Stubbs on the 1881 census but Emma (daughter of William) was married in 1880.
I was interested as I have Stubbs Ancestors from that area but don't think they tie in.   

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Cheshire Lookup Requests / Re: Samuel Stubbs Macclesfield
« on: Wednesday 17 December 25 20:15 GMT (UK)  »
Working with the niece, I found an Emma (born 1844) daughter of William Stubbs.  I can find William (born 1805) and Samuel (born 1812) sons of Samuel and Sarah.  Perhaps this could be worth looking into.
I have been working with a wildcard to pick up both Stubs and Stubbs.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Thrulines
« on: Monday 01 December 25 22:08 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks both for your replies.  I generally reject the ludicrous matches by ignoring them.  Ancestry does show the trees that might be the source of their calculations and adjusting those might provide a different thruline but contacting the owners of these does fall on stoney ground.  People fall in love with their trees and don't like to change them even though the error of their ways is clear to see.
I was led to believe by a friend that DNA analysis would open up my tree but I now realise that I was doing remarkably well with paper records and can probably live with not knowing the father of the odd illegitimate child.  Although I have spent many absorbing hours puzzling over mysterious matches whose family haven't left the US for 400 years, I would generally say that for my objectives DNA has been a waste of time.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Thrulines
« on: Saturday 29 November 25 19:48 GMT (UK)  »
I am sorry I don't understand what people mean here about 'accepting' and 'rejecting' information from Thru lines.  Is there an option to add something to your tree from Thru lines? Personally, I don't add anything to my tree unless I have found it for myself using primary sources.  Why would I even think about believing something in Thrulines when it is so obviously wrong most of the time. The best way to improve thrulines is to be meticulous with your own tree, extending it beyond your direct line.  Surprisingly, Thru lines can then straighten itself out.

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Cheshire Lookup Requests / Re: Miller family
« on: Saturday 25 October 25 20:22 BST (UK)  »
North Cheshire couples often went to Manchester or Liverpool to marry.  Have you considered samuel Miller married Elizabeth Darwell  in 1813 Walton on the Hill  (Liverpool).  There certainly seems to be an Elizabeth Darwell born in Halton in 1791.   As for Martha Miller's birth she is listed before Hannah in  Samuel Millers list of children in his will.

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Cheshire / Re: Stockport, Cale Green area, a chapel
« on: Thursday 09 October 25 12:24 BST (UK)  »
Apologies
I assumed that being in Cale Green and Mayer street it might have something to do with the Mayer family - I was after all searching Rootschat for Mayer! A bit of googling has led me to a couple of sites which say it is the former Cale Green Institute. A Cale Green Conservation document seemed to imply that it had become a chapel comparitively recently

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Cheshire / Re: Stockport, Cale Green area, a chapel
« on: Thursday 09 October 25 08:03 BST (UK)  »
I know nothing about the geography of the area or chapels  but remembered that both of them were described as 'of Cale Green' in their wills. 

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Cheshire / Re: Stockport, Cale Green area, a chapel
« on: Wednesday 08 October 25 19:38 BST (UK)  »
Matthew Mayer (1740-1814) and his son Joseph Mayer (1775-1857), both of Cale Green, were founders of the Sunday school, I think.  If you google joseph you will see a picture of what the Sunday School looked like.It was huge!   

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