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Re: Massive Tree
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 13 March 16 13:42 GMT (UK) »
A lot of the Public Trees on Ancestry are good for entertainment value if nothing else. ;D
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Re: Massive Tree
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 13 March 16 20:09 GMT (UK) »
I wish Ancestry wouldn't allow another tree to be a "source", they should only be a hint that leads you to other sources.

Sometimes I have a look at the "leaf litter" to see if someone's spotted something I've missed, or has a copy of a BMD certificate.

Most of the time it just leads to badly researched trees though.... I don't know if they're funny or really sad.
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Re: Massive Tree
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 13 March 16 20:21 GMT (UK) »
It is annoying when you find trees with info on someone such as this:-

Joseph Keeble

1881 census, Lowestoft, Suffolk, aged 49, widower, chandler.
1890 census New York, New York, USA, aged 60.
1891 census, Lowestoft, Suffolk, aged 59, widower, chandler.
Died Apr, May, June quarter 1899, Lothingland district, Suffolk, Joseph Keeble, England, aged 67.
1900 census New York, New York, USA, aged 70.
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Re: Massive Tree
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 13 March 16 20:42 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: warncoort on Sunday 13 March 16 12:22 GMT (UK)
What got up my nose was that the owner thought he had done well by tracing his paternal line!! I classify research as 30 minutes per person if things go well,hours for some so the owner needs to start his research before he was born.

I think I have been spoilt with having so many Scottish ancestors and having access to SP centres and previously going to NRH.  I have had a few successful days where I've managed to add several people to my tree relatively quickly and Scottish certificates are so much easier to cross reference to check if you have the correct one.

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Re: Massive Tree
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 13 March 16 21:26 GMT (UK) »
Scottish certificates are absolute gold, aren't they? I have also found Swedish church records to be as valuable, with the amount of information they contain.
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Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
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Re: Massive Tree
« Reply #14 on: Monday 14 March 16 06:49 GMT (UK) »
It seems I owe an apology to the genealogical world. ;)
I have been researching my family history for approximately 62 years.

Using Warncoot’s classification of research (30 minutes per person) as a base and expanding it thus (30 minutes a person, 3 hours a day, 200 days a year) I should now have around 18,600 people on my tree.
I have to admit failing to attain this basic achievement having only managed to find 4,360 for my main tree.

If I admitted such a failure to discharge my duties to the community in medieval times I would probably have been held in the stocks for a few hours.
As I live in the 21st century I therefore surrender myself to the modern day equivalent being named and shamed on an online forum.

It is obvious I will have to do better in future (funny I remember a similar phrase being used on many of my school reports “could do better”).
Perhaps this thread should have been started in December then I could have had this as a New Year Resolution.
Oh well!

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PS Perhaps I should be doing more research instead of whittering my time away on forums. ;)

PPS Apologies for the misspelling the name Warncoort
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Re: Massive Tree
« Reply #15 on: Monday 14 March 16 07:56 GMT (UK) »
Shame Guy, shame.  ;D
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: Massive Tree
« Reply #16 on: Monday 14 March 16 08:10 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: pinefamily on Sunday 13 March 16 13:42 GMT (UK)
A lot of the Public Trees on Ancestry are good for entertainment value if nothing else. ;D

After all, it's on the Internet, it's very clearly labelled, and it's on Ancestry,
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Re: Massive Tree
« Reply #17 on: Monday 14 March 16 08:23 GMT (UK) »
As I read your post, Bob, I picked the quote as Lewis Carroll, but thought it was from one of the Alice stories. Right author, wrong work.  ::)
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.
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