someone's pinched my Gt Grandma

[busybod]

I've just been on Mundia and found that someone has my Gt Grandmother on their tree.  They have her married to someone with the same name as mine, but a different spelling.  Also this man is 22yrs her junior.  According to their tree she has 3 children, all with the correct names.  Thats where the similarity ends, according to their tree her husband had 5 wives and 22 children!!

If its not a silly question, what do I do.

[lizdb]

Is there a way of contacting them t tell them what a load of rubbish?

It is things like this that make me adamant I will never put my tree online! I have seen ancestors of mine with absolute rubbish trees attached to them. Once I contacted a person and pointed out that x couldnt possibly be the father of Y, firstly because I had seen y's christening record in the PR's in the parish where he continually said he was born, and secondly the family they had quoted were in the censuses in a completely different part of the country, with the alleged aforementioned child still at home and single even after the known marriage and given that they were on the census elsewhere with their wife,  which I gave refereences for. The person had the decency to reply and agree, and then to remove the info. But he/she said he/she had just copied it from other trees. Yes, when I looked there are about 6 with this erroneus info, presumably all blindly copied from each other. I couldnt be bothered to contact them all. If they want tofollow an incorrect line so be it. But I hate it when others just copy it and take it as fact, when the facts clearly prove otherwise.
Rant over !!!!!!!

[busybod]

I can send a message via Mundia, which I will do, asking them where they get this information from.  I think it said on Mundia that their tree had something like ten thousand and something names on their tree.  Cant see the point of just collecting names.

[groom]

That is the problem, a lot of people with large trees are name collectors and as long as it sounds vaguely right they add it to their tree.

I found a tree with my grandfather added. The person had also given him a different middle name and married him to someone else. I contacted them with the proof they were wrong and they agreed. However I've recently noticed that, even after two years, he is still on their tree. Obviously if they removed him, they would have to remove the 50 or so people under him and I guess they dont want to do this

Hopefully when you contact the person they will respond, but I'm afraid the likelihood is that they will just ignore you.

[Beard grandchild]

I've found the same sort of thing on Mundia.

One man in Canada has my gt grandfather born in Haddington, which he was, then after the 1881 Scottish census moves him over to the USA then moves him back to England for his death in 1929.

My gt grandfather actually  married in Haddington in 1883, they had 4 children there then moved into England in 1891 where they added to their family living in the same small town until his death.

It doesn't bother me one jot - I know who's got the correct details and it certainly isn't the Canadian

[busybod]

Hi,

I've sent this person a message, asking him where he got the information and saying I dont know what he gets out of putting people on his tree that dont belong to him.  I'm not holding my breath for a response.  When I think about it, I know I am the one who has the right information so why should I worry.

Thanks for the replies everyone, made me feel a whole lot better.

[youngtug]

Mundia is part of Ancestry and all the public trees on Ancestry are viewable on Mundia. Probably most of the trees that you see are from ancestry. Your problem is an ongoing and worsening one on Ancestry and obviously now Mundia. The advantage of Mundia whilst it is in it's beta state is that you can search Ancestry trees for free, you just need a big sieve.

[msr]

Oh, don't let me start on this subject!

Suffice it to say that some people will not accept that they are wrong.  A tree with 68000+ names includes swathes of my family who shouldn't be there; the tree compiler has no connection at all to any of them.
Obviously a scoop was used, not a sieve.

My cousin and I have both informed this 'researcher' that our grandmother did not have the middle name that she has blessed her with, and our gt uncle apparently died in 1902 at the tender age of 5.  How marvelous then for him to have fought in WW1, unfortunately dying on the battlefield.

I could go on, and on, and ....................................
but I shan't.

Does have the grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr factor though, doesn't it?

Su

[busybod]

Sorry Su if I've got you started, but you obviously know what I mean.