Ancestry tree rubbish

[Edward Scott]

I have just found 11 trees, on HWMBO's side, that all have a 7 x ggmother marrying at the age of 14 and having her first child 2 years before the marriage.

All it takes is a little thought allied with common sense.

Edward

[steve62]

Sometime ago I had a message from Ancestry Messages.  This lady told me I had the wrong wife to a certain ancestor and my tree down to present was not correct and her tree was.  Well she was wrong and. my tree led to my grandmother.  I check double and triple records, dates, places and parents etc.  Told her mine was right.  She wrote and told me she had to undo her tree because the info she had copied from other trees was incorrect..  An well don'nt copy - research yourself!!
Well I do my own research and don't rely on copying and on the rare occasions if I do I check it out first.  If I get stuck it's "Hello Roots chat"

Steve62

[bevj]

My 4 x great grandfather was one Edward Jones of Herefordshire, who must have been quite a lad, or very unlucky, because he married four times and the first three all died very young.  Wife #1 and wife #2 were both called Mary.  I have never been able to identify wife #1 (unfortunately my direct ancestor) because the marriage took place around 1832 and I don't even know where. 
I only have a free tree on Ancestry but a couple of times a week I take a look at the hints because every so often there is something worth following up.  So yesterday to my surprise I found I had 99+ new hints.  Guess what - they were all for Mary Jones.     There were Mary Joneses born all over England, in Scotland and in the USA, despite the fact that Jones was their married name.   There were Marys on the 1871 census despite having died 30 years or so previously.  There was a Mary emigrating to Canada.  And there were dozens of marriages all over the place, again when Jones was their married name.
If someone with little experience and even less common sense sees all these hints and adds them willy-nilly to a Mary Jones in their tree, from where they are copied over and over again, it's not really surprising that so many trees are rubbish.
Bev

[coombs]

Such errors used to annoy me but now I just see it as "par for the course" for many Ancestry trees, and I just dismiss the blatantly obvious errors. Although I have had a bit of a breather from FH recently as it can become very overwhelming at times, and Anc has had very little in the way of new records lately.

[carol80]

I am 11 months and 2 days older than my Sister.
When my Mum passed away in 2009 she passed 4 days after my sister's birthday so when it came to fill out the Death cert my sister and i are the same age. No names just age's.
I wonder in the future how many trees will have us as Twins???

   Carol

[Gadget]

I have a strange group of DNA matches who, when they have a tree, have the surname McManus prominent. They seem to be only distantly related to me (circa 6th cousin level). I've tried to find a link but so far I've drawn a blank.

This morning I found that one of my new matches was in this group and had a tree which included  Adam, First Man,  b. 0001, Garden of Eden and died 1000, Cannan. He has him having 2 sons, Cain and Abel, both born and dying in Eden. I've only got as far as the As but assume that there will be  an Eve when I get to the Es. As you can imagine, it's a very large tree (Apple?) comprising 60522 people.

 

[hurworth]

I have just found 11 trees, on HWMBO's side, that all have a 7 x ggmother marrying at the age of 14 and having her first child 2 years before the marriage.

All it takes is a little thought allied with common sense.

Edward

We think one of my childrens' gtgtgtgt-grandmothers married at the age of fourteen. Her eldest child was baptised three months later.

[panda40]

On my tree yesterday I had a marriage for myself in the hints that took place in 1999. Do I tell my husband I might be a bigamist according to acncestry?
Panda

[Mvann]

Well originally I found two trees where I'm an only child. One tree is from dads side and has him as an only child and the other is on my mums side and has her as an only child