errors on trees

[fastfusion]

msr>   if u consider yourself to be in a computer closet and are offended then I apologise...best you a] stop copying and pasting other folks trees or b] move your computer out of the closet........

I will give an example of badly researched work. Wadham Locke MP for Wiltshire had a lineage that is very well recorded....  He had children and so did the next few generations.....     SOME goose put a tree up on anc stating one of his daughters had married in Co Durham to a blacksmith.......   well as u probably know from all the posts I do I like to get the entire parish register for something before I do a tree in a particular place......... If the Goose had done their work properly they would find Wadham and his family NEVER even went anywhere near Co Durham nor would they drop their social standing...

then the other nite from another web site housing trees, I am informed that one of my Gilbert clan came from a totally different village WHEN again if one had done their research or read the OPC PDFs they would have found the Gilberts of the particular village had been there for hundreds of years......


and then there is the case of my grandfather on my mothers side who tree did appear on anc...well there were whole children, and lines missing left right and centre...... the person was obviously a distant relation who had a certain point of view or perception of the tree........ but decidely one can either a] tell the person another perception or b] leave it to the four winds......

So when i publish my book are you the reader going to a] believe the trees on the net at face value; or b] the published and cited  work ?

So by chance anyone has their computer in a closet well a] it doesnt get used , or b] there is no room left anywhere else in the house.....   the comment is to taken in good faith nor directed at anyone inparticular.........    food for thought while this little goose gets on with next bit of his research in his little computer closet...

[msr]

msr>   if u consider yourself to be in a computer closet and are offended then I apologise...best you a] stop copying and pasting other folks trees or b] move your computer out of the closet........

fastfusion

a) YOU referred to strange layabouts in computer closets, not I.   To whom you were addressing the comment is unknown, if indeed to anyone.
b)  I do not copy and paste from 'other folks' trees.
c)   No, can't be bothered any more 

[Jomot]

Family history, its a bit like dancing really. 

Some will study the technique and practice for hours on end, wining medals and plaudits along the way. 

Some will try to get to that level but aren't quite dedicated enough, or maybe they just don't have the time.

Some will get to a good standard but really they're just doing for the sheer enjoyment, and so long as they manage the right moves in a reasonably structured & elegant way, well that's good enough for them.

Others mangle together the birdy dance, the stomp & the charleston yet think its a beautiful waltz, and all the comments in the world wont change their minds.

There's room for all of us....but maybe not all in the same room at the same time, which seems to be the problem with on-line trees 

[fastfusion]

msr >   you shouldnt take every thing so literally......... if i said the sky was blue someone somewhere would say it was turquoise..........       good that ya computer aint in the closet cos it might get a bit cramped in there....

[777777]

I ended up taking my (very well-researched) family tree off ancestry.com because random people kept assuming that my John Doyle or Mary Burns or other such commonly-named person was theirs and copying my information and photographs and records and everything into their tree, attaching them to *completely* the wrong person. Sloppy genealogy makes me very angry.