Is he a bigamist or is this a n other crazy researcher

[iluleah]

Gosh!  I know about mistakes!
I traced one of my London ancestors through the census back to Northampton.
I was so excited, as that is where I live now!  I went to the local record office and traced right back to the 1600s.  Fantastic!
Then (why ever I didn't do this before) I sent for a marriage certificate.....you know what's coming don't you?     ....wrong family.  My family had never come from Northampton.  They had come no further than Lambeth!!!
That was a couple of months research  IN THE BIN!
It was soooooo easy to go wrong!

Oh No! its called research practise

[spices]

Margaret Anne Storey wrote a family history book on her Simpson family called
Echoes of a Blacksmith.

On her web page she has a poem
Family Tree Virus 
It is about name gatherers

margaretannestorey.webs.com

Spices

[LizzieW]

There's a tree on ancestry with one of my ancestors which shows his death correctly, but which then goes on to find him again on census after he's died and then they marry him off and give him children, all whilst the poor man is dead and buried.  I did try to contact them to ask how he could die and then be resurrected a few years later to marry and have children but, not surprisingly, I never got a response.

[Hampshire Lass]

Margaret Anne Storey wrote a family history book on her Simpson family called
Echoes of a Blacksmith.

On her web page she has a poem
Family Tree Virus 
It is about name gatherers

margaretannestorey.webs.com

Spices

Found that poem. It's very good 

Are you any further forward xin?

and incorrect online trees, I could tell a tale or two also. Quite upsetting when you consider the huge impact they will have in another 100 years or so when they've gathered even more incorrect info.

[Finley 1]

NO he is now in a folder marked I will find you?
He was 15 so  somewhere in a school or something. 
His father was a Sergeant Major in the Yeomanry, so maybe some kind of Military School?

Love the poem


xin

[Hampshire Lass]

I found your thread on him and had a little dabble yesterday. I didn't end up posting anything as I decided I wasn't making any progress    Good luck with him, he may yet climb out of your folder.

I've downloaded a sample of her book now, which looks good. Certainly like the poem and so may buy the whole book later.

[Finley 1]

Thanks for trying

xin

with a.n.other 'one day when'

[rwindsor2905]

There's a tree on ancestry with one of my ancestors which shows his death correctly, but which then goes on to find him again on census after he's died and then they marry him off and give him children, all whilst the poor man is dead and buried.  I did try to contact them to ask how he could die and then be resurrected a few years later to marry and have children but, not surprisingly, I never got a response.

Better still, did they marry him off and have him having children 100 years before his birth? 

[AMBLY]

Hi Xin

Have you looked at this Francis. Age 14, a servant  in Hartington Nether Quarter
RG10 / Piece 3601 / Folio 8  Page 7

Is the whole family missing or split up in 1871 ......

Not all of course, but I reckon some of those wild tree errors we see  are the A* 'hints' being accepted when they're quite clearly wrong. I know I almost inadvertently 'accepted' a hint once when it was definitely not one of mine!

Cheers
AMBLY