Another rant about (some) Ancestry users

[groom]

Has anything really changed, apart from the fact that you now know that someone else knows how your MIL's uncle died? You said that you knew the truth ages ago, but chose to keep it from her, so is there any reason to think that she or his other relatives will now find out? Presumably you haven't put his death certificate on your tree , so unless any of his relatives are members of Ancestry there is no way they could see it, especially if her tree is now private.

It is very annoying, but you've done your best to correct things.

[Ringrose]

The trouble is that so many just copy a tree down ....there were nearly ten wrong trees of one family and I started writing comments to stop others going down the wrong path....no comments.it was gratifying to see about three trees which were the same as mine ....I was beginning to think I was wrong  but knew with all the B M Ds I had bought that I wasn't.
I wonder if they know how to research properly and be willing to spend money on Certs etc.
I get annoyed and frustrated
Ringrose

[Yasmina4]

Jomot. I am with you on this.

And i do think his nieces peace of mind matters.

[Pheno]

Don't want to offend anyone but I am really on the fence here.

You seem to think that should anyone reveal the truth to your mother in law she might be upset at the cause of death, however, she might also be upset to think that the truth has been kept from her all this time - I have had this happen.

Also though, that death certificate is out there in the public domain - after all that's what we as genealogists are always fighting for - and any number of people could already know the situation but just not have put the info on a public family tree.

After all your mother in law does not bear one jot of responsibility for his cause of death.

Pheno

[KGarrad]

I'm with you Pheno.

I think there are too many problems within families caused by people trying to keep secrets

Especially when those secrets involve facts that are in the public domain.

[3sillydogs]

I'm with you Pheno.

I think there are too many problems within families caused by people trying to keep secrets

Especially when those secrets involve facts that are in the public domain.

I can relate to that.  During my early forays into genealogy I discovered a cousin that I did not know I had, and my being in regular contact with her has caused the rest of my aunts siblings to close ranks against me and this "imposter".  She has been in contact with her half siblings so I see no reason to deny her existance. I can't ask mum and dad as they have long since passed on, but what dear old granny told her kids their sister had disappeared to would be interesting. 

[barryd]

I would not say I rant about it but I see quite a lot of careless errors in Trees. Durham, North Carolina for instance in a tree when the people have lived and died in County Durham, England.

[Erato]

"that death certificate is out there in the public domain"

Yes, and furthermore, no one owns their ancestors.  Those ancestors are historical figures, albeit in most cases very minor ones.  Anyone is free to investigate them for whatever reason using information that is publicly available.  No one would think to say otherwise if the ancestor happened to be a famous individual.

[KGarrad]

I would not say I rant about it but I see quite a lot of careless errors in Trees. Durham, North Carolina for instance in a tree when the people have lived and died in County Durham, England.

I used the "rant" word from your thread title!

As I have said many times, on several threads, that is the fault of the tree owners who don't put a country name after the town name!
Ancestry, being a US company, defaults to the nearest equivalent American town (or county!).

Yes, I think Ancestry care wrong, and the default from a .co.uk search should be the UK name (ditto for Australia, Canada, or wherever!).

But essentially, it is user error. After all, how hard is it to select the correct town from the drop-down list, or to simply enter "England" after the town or county name?