The television advertising of Ancestry shows a person without any “real” research, can in minutes find their ancestors….just click and you have it.

If you contact the person who actually doesn’t belong in your tree, they rarely remove themselves from it. Contacting Ancestry doesn’t help they say they can’t remove incorrect information from anyones tree, it’s too involved.

Ancestry has lost sight on the importance of accuracy of information for ones Family Tree.

I don’t know of anyway around it. The programmers would have to give us the ability to select from people in our tree–and I doubt that that is high on their to do list!

The ability to copy from another person’s tree into you own tree is a subject of constant debate and comment on several of the Message Boards, particularly the Member Trees board, the Ancestry Site Comments board, and the Ancestry Improvements board.

In fact, it is such a re-occurring theme it almost needs its own message board.

Hopefully, at some point in the near future, Ancestry will see the error of its way and cease to allow this practice which only aids and abets the generation and distribution of one click junkology.

Andy Hatchett
agh3rd@aol.com

This is not a recreational project, but a historical project.

Sometimes wading thru incorrect entries here on the trees is as difficult as when I began my research. When records were hard to find and involved traveling to even find the records.

Susan Barwick

There are many of us who have been reseaching for years, way before everything would be pulled up for you to review, hints (love it for my research). Those who have actually had to pour for hours thru records undestand how tricky finding info and correct info can be and proceed with more caution.

Too many new people who do not actually research are propragating incorrect information. There are many who do mostly click and attach.

I think everyone should have to review the actual records (census, death, etc) before attaching.

Also, many are just attaching records to women and throwing in their married names and not specifying that their maiden names are not known. Soon it is going to be a mess if not already, with all these married names attached to females not showing their maiden names or maiden name not known.

I love the family tree program here, but it is great for real researchers.

I fear when the tv show begins to air this week, that many will join ancestry.com, then jump in on the trees and start clicking their way through and adding without researching. I fear that when this happens many family lines are going to be greatly corrupted as wrong info is copied over and over.

I just found where someone had attached the wrong person to my father! I have it clearly documented who my parents are and their family lines are….yet, there it was…someone had my Dad married to my Mom’s sister. My Mom died just over 1 and a half years ago so this is not old info that could be twisted thru time.

Please somehow create reminders and restraints on how people grab information, before family lines become full of incorrect data.

Susan Barwick barwick.susan@gmail.com

I would love to hear from others who are running into these same situations.

You are so right about the huge space Ancestry uses for New Search. Then they started it in the trees. They have however tightened the space in the trees. However, I notice text notations do not always wrap around. It bleeds into the area for sources/add media.

I think Ancestry spreads out everything because they are in Utah and that state is really spread out. They are used to w-i-d-e open space. I happen to like Utah, but I don’t like the spread on my computer screen.