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

[Finley 1]

oh thanks for that will have a look.

The whole family seems to be split up.
His Father deceased
His Wife now is a House keeper in burton on trent and his daughter Catherine down as a visitor in Burton... I havent followed the others yet?!

 

xin

[Finley 1]

Thanks again, yes we had looked at that one its the illegible one... (     )

So will study it more closely.


xin

[Josephine]

I've found some bizarre mistakes concerning people in my or my husband's tree.

It seems as if there's more of it happening nowadays than when I first started researching my family tree. I wonder if it has to do with the genealogy sites offering such a wide range of search results. People see the "matches" and add them to their tree without investigating properly whether it's actually the same person or family.

As others have found, for the most part, the same trees are copied over and over.

And still, after all these years, any solid info on my family was supplied by me to others who then put it online (usually without my consent).

[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.

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

No, strangely they hadn't thought of that one yet. 

[spices]

I've found some bizarre mistakes concerning people in my or my husband's tree.

My husbands cousin and his wife are very much alive.
The Ancestry leaf had me look at a public members tree To my surprise both Cousin & his wife are marked DECEASED time ADT after .....
I phoned our cousin and asked NO I did not ask if they were still alive
asked if the members on this tree was her relatives YES they were.
The tree owner was from another country so I sent a message stating that they were still alive- Surprise no reply.

Gets better The cousin was sent a small book on her Family history to find both she her husband and her sister were all deceased.
How could that happen

Spices

[Josephine]

Spices,

Some people think that copying and pasting equals research.

Years ago, a cousin told me: "I was up late last night researching our family tree back to the 1400s!"

She wasn't researching; she was looking at someone else's tree. And who knows if any of it had actually been researched; it was probably cobbled together from other sources.

If I take info from online trees I make sure I note where I found it and that it needs to be ruled in or out. Then, when I can, I do my own research, including finding source documents if possible.

I'm grateful when someone's tree provides me with a clue or, rarely, solid info that I didn't already have but many internet trees are definitely rife with mistakes.

I think I'd freak out a bit if I received a family history booklet showing me and my husband dead! 

Josephine