Rant About Nicked Ancestors

[DJHawkes]

I've made it my own little beef that anyone trying to nick my ancestors get short shrift from me, I've come across a humdinger last night. A Canadian researcher has purloined my great grandfather and all 10 of his siblings and adopted them to a couple with the same name as his parents but the couple were from Staffordshire not Todmorden. Apparently, to this Canadian, Walsall is just up the road from Tod. He also has added a further 8 siblings, the last 4 of which were born in and died in Toronto. That would have meant my great grandfather's dad and mum would have had t shoot over to toronto from tod for 9 months 3 times , (on 2 occasions it would have bee after my great great grandfather had died and been buried in tod)
I have spent a few minutes systematically and patiently going through the profiles of my ancestors on his tree leaving a message on each one telling him he's wrong.
I blame ancestry as they must have come up with the hint for him to have added them, though his lack of geographica knowledge and common sense are also a factor.
It's annoying, but also somehow satisfying, lol

[DJHawkes]

I didn't think mormons recognised jesus christ, or are they waiting until they get that link lol

[craft1948]

I must admit I got caught out last week, and would never have known it if another GR user hadn't contacted me.
One of my great-aunts married someone with very unusual names, and I assumed I'd found him so put him in my tree.
It turned out she'd actually married his uncle who was 28 years older than her, but had the same weird names, and was born in the same village.

[lyall]

I’ve had the same problem with the photo’s I have attached to people on my ancestry tree, some people just don’t seem to think before they purloin. Part of me blames programmes like Who Do You Think You Are? They make it look so easy tracing your family tree, they don’t show the hours of going through records or the brick walls you hit, it’s just blink and the information is there. I would love to hide my tree on ancestry but as I share my subscription with a friend if I hide mine hers will also be hidden and she would prefer not to have hers hidden. So I have only the generations on ancestry now there are no siblings or branches, they are all on a non internet tree for my information only. If anyone enquires through ancestry about them I make sure they will go to the correct home so to speak before I send the information asked for.