Unacknowledged Copying

[LizzieW]

They have not bought one certificate or visited any Archives, but managed this in less then a couple of weeks.  and guess where they have copied it all from!

But, of course, Ancestry's TV advert gives the impression that it's just a matter of going to their website, typing in your own name and then pretty soon you will have a tree.

[jaybelnz]

   . That's a bit like the tap dancing Trivago ad Lizzie W - just type in .......... Etc!  Magic!

[Mvann]

I know someone on ancestry had copied a bit from my tree as I made an error with a name and had guessed the date of birth and it looks like they copied it.

[suey]

Can't help myself 🙄 Looking again at a tree that supposedly has one of my husbands ancestors... Lovely set of census images for the chap in question.  I guess one out of three correct is not bad going. One had the wrong man, wrong wife, the other, wife with correct name but oddly in a completely different County. The fault of ancestry wiggling leaves and folk who believe in their ruddy advert, 😡

[ThrelfallYorky]

Exactly. We live in an age that expects instant results, and is often all too credulous and easily satisfied.

[pharmaT]

They have not bought one certificate or visited any Archives, but managed this in less then a couple of weeks.  and guess where they have copied it all from!

But, of course, Ancestry's TV advert gives the impression that it's just a matter of going to their website, typing in your own name and then pretty soon you will have a tree.

Since I was born in Scotland, according to ancestry I don't exist.

[Finley 1]

I get all this  ::::

But the FACT is that in the future, Ancestry 'TREES' are going to become so.... messed up, that even the person who has the FACTS in front of them won't know what to believe.

I am at the moment reaching the age - where I have to make sure my TREE passes into the right hands, or comes with me ( wherever I am going )... I am going to have to specifically explain instances like, the Couple who work from Spain ( who I have written to time and again) and have my ggg married to some American 9 year old have got it WRONG.  very wrong...

I actually came across a new tree - being compiled by a very very close blood line relation!?!? but we just dont get to see each other due to a family ..... uhm  upset   argh... anyway on reading it.  She had a wonderful tree all copied from Ancestry.. and lots of my filched pics etc...from a time when my tree was public...
She only had to ring or call and it would have been given..


xin

[hurworth]

Since I was born in Scotland, according to ancestry I don't exist.

Surely there's some relatives who will throw their money around and get a cert or two for the price of a pint?

I do wish the Scottish post-1855 certs gave a wee bit of a clue about the parents.  When most boys are called David, John, William or James it can be hard to know whether the birth registration is your relative or not.  I've gone down the wrong path a few times, but also had some hunches that have paid off.

[pharmaT]

Since I was born in Scotland, according to ancestry I don't exist.

Surely there's some relatives who will throw their money around and get a cert or two for the price of a pint?

I do wish the Scottish post-1855 certs gave a wee bit of a clue about the parents.  When most boys are called David, John, William or James it can be hard to know whether the birth registration is your relative or not.  I've gone down the wrong path a few times, but also had some hunches that have paid off.

I find the certificates are good with the information on parents, much better than English ones for cross referencing.