I have always made the point of never putting my family trees on the internet. I have been researching our trees since 2000 and must admit the information out there is considerably more than when I started.
In my research I have often gone off down the wrong road but extra checking; visits to the Records Office at Durham and the purchase of certificates usually put me right. Because I have gone as far as I can with my research I occasionally feed in a search of public trees on Ancestry just to see what other people have found out. I and am totally amazed at the amount of misinformation which pops up as fact on some of these trees.
Surely if you are going to publish your tree you should verify the information you put out there.
I shall now step down off my soap box.
In my research I have often gone off down the wrong road but extra checking; visits to the Records Office at Durham and the purchase of certificates usually put me right. Because I have gone as far as I can with my research I occasionally feed in a search of public trees on Ancestry just to see what other people have found out. I and am totally amazed at the amount of misinformation which pops up as fact on some of these trees.
Surely if you are going to publish your tree you should verify the information you put out there.
I shall now step down off my soap box.
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