Terrible Trees On Ancestry

[Gadget]

I apologise.

I've just been updating my tree and Sinah is the possible sister of my 4th great grandmother, not my 3rd 

[Rosinish]

even a tree with sources needs at least some checking, as has been suggested.

My latest discovery has an attached 'marriage' which is an ancestry index i.e. no parent info.

Further rooting around & there's an actual SP marriage cert. (saved from another tree) not attached to the ancestor but in the 'Gallery' which provides both parents names as well as mothers maiden names...

All the info. needed yet she's attached generations of my family to her ancestor...

Her ancestor has same forename, circa same birth date/place with parents William & Catherine but the parents of my chap who are added to her tree are Dougald & Mary (only a slight difference) 

All the info. there yet copying from elsewhere without checking the 'facts' in front of her 

Annie

[chris_49]

Sinah Tannat  - match slider to middle for surname
Born 1759 in Montgomeryshire, Wales - exact to place and +5 for birth date

Hi Gadget

I'm astonished that there is a surname Tannat in Montgomeryshire, not just because my paternal grandfather's family are all from the Tanat valley but because location surnames from Wales are almost unheard of (you do find Cardiff but most of the other candidates have other origins - Newport, Knighton, Buckley etc come from places in England, Anglesea is Anglo-Saxon, Montgomery is Norman-French.)

FreeBMD finds a lot in England  as Tannatt that seems to be a variant of the commoner Dannatt/Dannett: itself derived from Daniel, Google tells me. But there is this isolated cluster around Oswestry and Mont (where Dannatt is unknown) and Tanat, Tannat and Tanatt are almost uniquely found. Do you know anything about this?

I also have a Sinah hereabouts - unusual name.

[Gadget]

Obviously from the Tanat valley!  I've found various spellings of the surname - Tanat, Tanant, Tannat, Tannet, etc  Most of the ones I'm interested in are from Llansanffraid ym Mechain, Llanfechan and Guilsfield circa 1720-1800.

I've got a few Sinahs in my tree, Sinah Sandland from Orseddwen is my favourite



PS - my 4 x GM was 'of Oswestry' when she married by license in Shrewsbury.

[Tasman1]

Hi. Happens all the time. You post a new individual and it is  immediately copied to "COPIER X". I know who she is and removed my tree to Private, but not before she copied my picture of my GG'father's burial lair in Greenock Cemetry to Greenock America. I have long asked Ancestry why a simple algorithim would stop children born at 'x' year could have children born 'x'+10 years. Copying is just a lazy way of making a tree to impress who? Like others, I have given up worrying about nonsense purporting to be a family tree. All my stats have a valid SP BMD cert.