I am Related to Someone Famous!

[AllanUK]

For some time now I have ignored the rubbish from Ancestry that is telling me that they have found many ancestors of mine that were in Ohio and Pennsylvania including my great grandfather that was (according to Ancestry) born in Pittsburgh. I have his birth certificate, born 1842 in Lincolnshire, England.

[Zaphod99]

Allan, is it Ancestry making these claims or the trees of their customers? 

Zaph

[AllanUK]

Allan, is it Ancestry making these claims or the trees of their customers? 

Zaph

Ancestry

[familydar]

Jane, what are the problems with your experience of using AI for ancestry?

I realise that there are lots of inaccurate trees which grow through hoovering up each and every hint thrown at them, and AI can't be blamed for them, but I'm guessing Ancestry uses those very dubious trees to train its AI, so we get into a self-fulfilling loop.

My family connection to the original subject of this thread depended on a birth to a 65 year old woman two or three centuries ago.  Really?

I'm not against AI per se but I am amused by Ancestry's use of it, that's all.  And if it's not using AI to make these connections then the software really should have some basic checks built in to throw out births to infant and long deceased mothers at least.

Jane :-)