Ancestry trees

[suek2075]

They could police them all, check every part of every user's trees and delete those that were wrong. Persistent offenders would have their subscription refunded and they would not only be banned from Ancestry but then blacklisted from all FH sites.

Simple.

That's what I thought too 

But someone may have a better idea..............

[jettejjane]

Hmm   Ancestry also mention "authentic family stories". 

Dictionary says - Authentic

not false or copied; genuine; real: 

having the origin supported by unquestionable evidence; authenticated; verified: 

Suey thats what I have. From 1800`s a chest of docs has been handed down the generations it is in my possession. Every owner has added to it and all owners thankfully have been interested. It will go to my eldest son who has seen it already and showing an interest also. There ars copies in Arundel Museum. Have also many artefacts some priceless that I would never part with. My stories are genuine some tapes can back this up. Also the Family Bible. Dad on the left has a portrait in the town Hall and a room in council chambers named after him.

[youngtug]

Since this thread is on "The Lighter Side" it will not count towards racking up posts.

Sorry, you are wrong, it doe's count towards posts,

[JenB]

My stories are genuine some tapes can back this up.

Just because someone told a story doesn't necessarily mean it's true.

I have a tape recording of my grandmother, in which she asserts that one of her uncles was a life long bachelor and had no children.

By means of marriage certificates, birth certificates and census returns I have been able to prove that she was completely wrong: not only did he marry and have two children with his wife, he also had several children with two other women.

[suek2075]

Jettejane - you are very, very lucky to have so much documentation. I'm always very envious of all the interesting  photographs and documents I see produced on here. I doubt if our family has anything beyond 50 years ago 

Many of us have to search very hard to find the documents that we need to verify information, and the further back we go the harder it gets, especially for generations of ag labs in areas where few records or newspapers have survived. Not surprising really that people make mistakes.

[california dreamin]

They could police them all, check every part of every user's trees and delete those that were wrong. Persistent offenders would have their subscription refunded and they would not only be banned from Ancestry but then blacklisted from all FH sites.

Simple.

Sorry Mike, I think you are being very flippant about this.  Of course they can't act as police but what they could do is devise better methods of allowing access to family trees. For a start perhaps we should have to ask before we could 'click and attach'? Or colour code them? Delete or put into deep store in-active trees? 

Mission Statement - you can laugh but a Company is suppose to stand behind their statement.  Someone was paid alot of money to write that!

[JenB]

Since this thread is on "The Lighter Side" it will not count towards racking up posts.

Sorry, you are wrong, it doe's count towards posts,

Youngtug is right - before my previous posting I had 9239 posts, and now I've got 9240 - so I gained one by posting on The Lighter Side.

I'm not supposed to be reading this thread, so I'll go away now.

[Mike in Cumbria]

Sorry Mike, I think you are being very flippant about this.

Well we agree on that

Mission Statement - you can laugh but a Company is suppose to stand behind their statement.  Someone was paid alot of money to write that!

Sorry - I've had to work for too many organisations with naff mission statements to take them seriously!

[Erato]

It is an 'authentic' story if it is a story that was really told by someone.  That doesn't mean it is a true story; it could even be entirely and deliberately false.  I posted online [not at Ancestry] my grandfather's written recollections of his boyhood on a Wisconsin farm.  Are they authentic family stories?  Yes, they are authentically his words but there is no guarantee that he recalled things with 100% accuracy.  I also have a newspaper article published in various US papers and in Australia [cousin Beulah shipwrecked, attacked by cannibals, sees eleven sailors killed and eaten, barely escapes with her life through the fortuitous intervention of a German gunboat].  Is it an authentic family story?  Yes, it is.  Those things really were written about Beulah, they were part of her mystique as an inspirational speaker on missionary life, but they were probably 100% fabricated.