Should I tell other genealogists when they have made a mistake?

[clairec666]

Don't take it to heart if someone ignores your advice - maybe they're no longer researching their family (although I can never imagine giving up!)

If somebody doesn't want to listen to some friendly advice when they're given it.... oh well, it's their loss. I know that there are people out their who would appreciate me pointing them in the right direction.

[Gone]

PharmaT...can you imagine a Yorkshireman with a brummy accent?   

[StevieSteve]

I found an ancestors of my husband's born in Birmingham West Riding, Yorkshire.  When I contacted ancestry they told me that over the years here was some movement of boundaries.  Well that would be some movement 

 

That's only an issue though if you were conducting a search on "Warwickshire". I find that FindMyPast is much more accurate if searching by county.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Nosing round "Ancestry" trees, what gets me is when someone's obviously clicked" on the first proffered location for a town. "Southport" for example  will throw up about 15 examples, and logic should suggest no-one in their right minds would change continents to an identically named town in another continent for one birth, then back for all the rest of their lives! That's an easy one to spot, but.....

[coombs]

Anc have some districts on the civil reg indexes as different counties to what they are in.

A distant rellie was born in 1922 in West Ham district, and the county said Suffolk.