Ancestry tree rubbish

[BushInn1746]

This sort of problem with unresearched links is certainly not just restricted to family history. Last week I went to sea a theatre production of Hedda Gabler. I read a summary of the plot on Wikipedia, and at the end there was a supposed link to the actress playing the title role but unfortunately the link was to an American anthropologist with the same name.

Martin

Yes Martin, failure to check the BMD documents and Census (almost complete from 1841 - 1911) in Family History, could be like when the driver takes a wrong turn, we will be in the wrong named street and if we continue on, end up in another suburb, or even driving out of that town!

Mark

[Mart 'n' Al]

Mark, yes, and those who blindly follow the talking map lady off the end of the pier!

Martin

[coombs]

Like when a lead cyclist has hundreds of other cyclists following him, and he makes a mistake by turning down the wrong road and they all follow. That sums up how people do that with 1 poorly researched Ancestry tree. The mistakes just get repeated and repeated.

[Edward Scott]

Why on earth have I just thought of Lemmings? Amazing what an early G&T can do 

[a chesters]

Mark, yes, and those who blindly follow the talking map lady off the end of the pier!

Martin

OOps

Just shows what NOT doing your own research can lead to, in all aspects of life.

PS the lady in my car is NOT of the map variety, but a live person

[ThrelfallYorky]

Didn't all the runners in a Venice marathon a few years back, go the wrong way?

[Edward Scott]

Didn't all the runners in a Venice marathon a few years back, go the wrong way?

2017 & they should really have a swimathon

[coombs]

- Hope it wasn't that Dyer chap, was it, coombs?

Thankfully not. Dyer would have said "How does a pauper like you know about my rich family tree you dodgy geeza".

[coombs]

I admit to making a mistake myself the other day. My ancestor Phillip Winterflood died in 1727, and the parish register says he was in his 70s and in the same plot as his daughter. I added an "approximate" year of birth on my Anc tree and put born "About 1755". I then realised I meant "About 1655".