A few days ago a distant cousin of my husband (her father and my husband or second Cousins)contacted me to see if we could 'share' information. Once I had managed to establish that she and my hubby were actually related I looked at her public tree on ancestry. It looks like she had done it all on guess work, wrong word of mouth and other peoples trees. Needless to say on the branch that she shares with my hubby there were so many errors. Her grandmother's maiden name was wrong and on the basis of this the branch which she had established for this mythical lady was fiction. On her grandfathers side of the family (her grandfather and my hubby's grandmother were brother and sister). The information was correct for a few generations (with the exception of one census which she had two different census' for the same person and the combined children of both census' as siblings) until we get to Sarah Britland wrong year wrong parents. However, because the Britlands stayed in the same place for several generations, four generations back and her tree is correct again (assuming that mine is correct of course).
I contacted her told he where I thought she had gone wrong and why and backed this up with evidence form the public domain. She has never bothered to respond with any thanks for the help I gave her. She did however, make changes to her tree. Her Grandmothers maiden name is now correct but we now have another inaccurate branch which is completely wrong. If she bought her Grandparents marriage certificate this would be proven - I think her Grandmothers uncle married her husbands sister.
I am not sure whether to contact her again and share my concerns regarding the inaccuracy of her tree or just let her play her own game by her rules.
Sandra
I contacted her told he where I thought she had gone wrong and why and backed this up with evidence form the public domain. She has never bothered to respond with any thanks for the help I gave her. She did however, make changes to her tree. Her Grandmothers maiden name is now correct but we now have another inaccurate branch which is completely wrong. If she bought her Grandparents marriage certificate this would be proven - I think her Grandmothers uncle married her husbands sister.
I am not sure whether to contact her again and share my concerns regarding the inaccuracy of her tree or just let her play her own game by her rules.
Sandra
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