Ancestry tree rubbish

[a chesters]

Ooops.

Just claim fat fingers.

[ThrelfallYorky]

(Actually, in 2018 the Venice marathon turned into a paddle-athon, with Aqua Alta along the route.)

Let's not get all worked up about it, there's a lot of rubbish on Ancestry trees .... and a lot of fiction on non-Ancestry Trees, and in all our family legends, too! We don't have to take notice of it .... just feel gently superior to all those paddling their canoes madly up the wrong river.
It's generally no point trying to point out to them what they've got wrong - and they may well be convinced ( without the right evidence, of course) that WE are wrong?

[BushInn1746]

My 2 X Gt Grandfather in 1881 George Hood, born Selby 1847 and Cecilia Hood (Westley) 14 Nelson Street, Leicester. I had found the Census at the Records Office along with entries in the Council/Electoral Registers, long before they appeared online.
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When this Census first appeared online, it was Hood, next time I looked Wood (Hood) now Wood on Ancestry ...

1881 England Census

Name George Wood Birth abt 1847 Selby Yorkshire England

Spouse Cecilia Wood

Children John S. Wood

Residence 1881 Leicester St Margaret Leicestershire England

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Remaining children and Cousin
Henry G. Hood, Son, 8mo, Born Leicester.
Edith M. Hood, Daur, 5, born Leicestershire, Wigston.
Letitia Gibson, Cousin, Unm, 18, Weston Super Mare, Som.

Letitia Gibson (Born 11 October 1862 at Moreton, Letitia Eliza Sarah Gibson, Father Edward Dankley Gibson, Printer and the Mother Caroline Letitia Gibson, formerly Drake.) The Brother of Letitia Gibson was born Weston Super Mare in the 1871 Census.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=733067.msg5782496#msg5782496

Mark

[Edward Scott]

Let's not get all worked up about it, there's a lot of rubbish on Ancestry trees

I don't get 'worked up', I just feel it is disappointing that simple common sense tells you that something is wrong when eg people having babies at 3 or 4 years old, being married at the same age, getting married and having children after being buried.

I use FTP off line and that makes various noises if you enter data that mathematically doesn't make sense (as above examples), I guess that many people just use the online tree creation and that the date warnings don't happen.

Edward

[Chilternbirder]

Let's not get all worked up about it, there's a lot of rubbish on Ancestry trees

I don't get 'worked up', I just feel it is disappointing that simple common sense tells you that something is wrong when eg people having babies at 3 or 4 years old, being married at the same age, getting married and having children after being buried.

I use FTP off line and that makes various noises if you enter data that mathematically doesn't make sense (as above examples), I guess that many people just use the online tree creation and that the date warnings don't happen.

Edwrad

Not just that the warnings don't happen but that Ancestry actively gives you these entries as suggestions.

[Edward Scott]

Not just that the warnings don't happen but that Ancestry actively gives you these entries as suggestions.

Aha, that was raised on another thread https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=806441.msg6666265#msg6666265

Edward

[coombs]

There are probably several Anc trees that are correct and well sourced. Such as ours. I dont bother telling name collectors and poorly researched tree owners that their Anc tree is wrong, at least in a polite way, say it could be a mistake. They never wear the cap even if it fits.

If I was in the public eye like Dyer, I could make a show about Sir Stephen Borde of Borde Hill in Cuckfield who was my ancestor.

[jettejjane]

I have just come across this very interesting thread and many answers mirror my views.

When I started research seriously I assumed all ancestry trees were correct, this led me down many wrong roads until common sense and checking info kicked in. My first failure was my gt x 2 grandfather had daughter called Mary born around 1842 and so I learned later did one of his brothers  it was many months until I realised this as I was only researching my gt x 2’s daughter or so I thought  Then I discovered another Mary and realised i had them the wrong way round, in fact one was plain Mary the other Mary Anne.

I used to contact tree owners pointing out their errors nicely but not many replied, some did and were thankful others didn’t believe me, even though I had proof. I don’t do it anymore.

Ancestry trees should come with a warning.

[BushInn1746]

 ... trees should come with a warning.

Yes.

I can't see the Hood for the Trees    

Also found a few Hood images, incorrectly transcribed and described as Wood, on all sites too    

Stead and Head is another.

Mark