F£kin barstewards nickin your ancestors

[dotty.]

Bloody yanks on ancestry attaching themselves to family that you know could never in a million years be theirs but they ignore the facts and just think it looks right grrrrr really really aggravatin

[ummmm]

I use to get a few emails from Americans asking if we could be related...!!!

This was years back though....

[dotty.]

Onetoday has attached my great grandad to their tree because my great grandads younger brother apparently travelled to Canada in 1911 and married a canadian girl, he must have had a special license cos he died in 1905 aged 25.

[ummmm]

lol...

[dotty.]

Not only that, they've given my great great grandad a new middle name, generous to a fault them there american types

[ummmm]

Is there a way you can point this out to them?

[dotty.]

Yes I have left a quite polite but factual comment on their research page, well it is polite at the moment, if they refuse to alter their research over the next few days I shall be slightly more confrontational, in my own polite way of course : ) I might send them a pic of the grave actually.

[Old_Geezer]

The family tell you he died, but what are they really hiding ? ;-)

[dotty.]

lol that's a valid point OG, never looked at it that way lol all that money they must have wasted on a fancy headstone lol

[Barmaid]

Dotty, that drives me insane. I've started privatising all mine because I am sick of my work being nicked and bastardised. One researcher even has my sister married to a bloke in Leeds with two kids. Even though I have pointed out that she has it wrong and my sister is divorced, childless and lives in Lincolnshire, this woman knows better. I also asked her to remove the details since I think you should not publish "living" relative details in these days of ID theft. Don't suppose she's done it yet though.

I am tempted to leave the details "public" and include the odd fatal inaccuracy........

[jno]

don't tell me the Rockefellers are trying to attach you to their family tree? Tell them to take a hike pronto!

[spudqueen]

I'm not on Ancestry at the moment, and I think I'm quite glad judging by your comments. Though a couple of weeks ago I did link up with someone through Genesreunited. She had a number of hotlinks with myself, including my Mum. It turns out though that it was a distant cousin of mine who had linked the two families wrongly. Okay, so both Marys had parents called John and Sarah, but my Sarah had a different maiden name to the other one, and if my cousin had bothered to check she would have noticed that the Marys had completely different siblings. Now I've had an e-mail off her telling me when my Gt Gt Grandparents married, which is three years after their actual marriage as I have a copy of their marriage certificate! It just too much assuming and not enough actual checking.

[237SJ]

Think yourself lucky it`s just by computer. My parents had New Zealanders, Americans, Canadians and Aussies turn up on the doorstep uninvited.

[dotty.]

I'm finding more and more lately that it's not just the transcriptions that can be wrong, but the research the people post and then someone else copies it to their tree in good faith and the inaccuracy carries on. I always post comments letting them know they need to re-check their source.