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Tracing back wrong info on Ancestry
« on: Monday 22 October 18 17:07 BST (UK) »
Hello, is there anyway to trace back on ancestry where the original wrong information came from?
I look through other trees & it says they have taken others family trees & added them to theirs.

Hope that makes sense?
Byrne, Butterfield, Gilbert, Sutcliffe, Furey, Alderson, Warham, to name a few!

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Re: Tracing back wrong info on Ancestry
« Reply #1 on: Monday 22 October 18 17:18 BST (UK) »
I, personally, think that the answer to that question is "NO".  AND the only way to make sure that your tree is correct is to do your own research.  OK, look at other trees, but do your own research to verify/discard that information.

Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
Kendall - WRY
Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY

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Re: Tracing back wrong info on Ancestry
« Reply #2 on: Monday 22 October 18 17:22 BST (UK) »
Yes there is!

Start with your last known SOURCED person and research each and every one from there that has no sources.... plus check each sourced one to check if sources are correct. Quite simple.
Give a man a record and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to research, and you feed him for a lifetime.

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Re: Tracing back wrong info on Ancestry
« Reply #3 on: Monday 22 October 18 17:33 BST (UK) »
"Tracing back wrong info on Ancestry" ...

If you actually mean wrong info on Ancestry, in other words provided by Ancestry, in principle it should be possible to work out what they state is the source they've taken it from.
But if it is wrong info put there by a user, on a public tree for instance, the only way to find the source (if it's not given) is to message the creator and ask. 
Rutter, Sampson, Swinerd, Head, Redman in Kent.  Others in Cheshire, Manchester, Glos/War/Worcs.
RUTTER family and Matilda Sampson's Will:

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Re: Tracing back wrong info on Ancestry
« Reply #4 on: Monday 22 October 18 18:01 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Alders on Monday 22 October 18 17:07 BST (UK)
Hello, is there anyway to trace back on ancestry where the original wrong information came from?
I look through other trees & it says they have taken others family trees & added them to theirs.

Hope that makes sense?

I understand what you are saying as I have also experienced a circle where every (unresearched) tree has duff information and if you try to track them through the original tree seems to have vanished.

I either give up or message the lot of them with a fact that will help to correct the error with a bit of work

Edward
Scott - Lincolnshire
Jobson - Lincolnshire, Suffolk
Needham - Lincolnshire
Wayet - Lincolnshire

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Re: Tracing back wrong info on Ancestry
« Reply #5 on: Monday 22 October 18 18:05 BST (UK) »
Thank you all,

I have the right information through fact checking & due diligence but this chap was never in the military, was born in 1854 & the wrong info of him dying in France in WW1 is on many copied trees!
Just wondered where that info originally came from.

Thanks again.
Byrne, Butterfield, Gilbert, Sutcliffe, Furey, Alderson, Warham, to name a few!

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Re: Tracing back wrong info on Ancestry
« Reply #6 on: Monday 22 October 18 18:09 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Alders on Monday 22 October 18 18:05 BST (UK)
was born in 1854 & the wrong info of him dying in France in WW1 is on many copied trees!

Name gatherers, grab data and never apply logic. 70- year old in WW1 not a hard one to work out as being wrong.
Scott - Lincolnshire
Jobson - Lincolnshire, Suffolk
Needham - Lincolnshire
Wayet - Lincolnshire

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Re: Tracing back wrong info on Ancestry
« Reply #7 on: Monday 22 October 18 18:11 BST (UK) »
Exactly!  silly people! ;D
Byrne, Butterfield, Gilbert, Sutcliffe, Furey, Alderson, Warham, to name a few!

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Re: Tracing back wrong info on Ancestry
« Reply #8 on: Monday 22 October 18 18:25 BST (UK) »
Maybe the person they copied it from realized the info was incorrect and corrected their own tree. Nothing they could do about the people who copied them.
Just a thought.
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