Just found a match in another tree for one of mine on Ancestry, so clicked on it and? well person is a Robert Hooper born abt 1856 Somerset this person has a Birth attached to him for a Albert Henry Hooper born 1883 ? so dont think it will be any help to me .:conf:
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I think sometimes people download great chunks of information from trees and then upload it en masse to their own tree. In the process, things sometimes go awry and the data gets jumbled. They don't bother to check what they've added so can't see that it has generated "grave errors" - people dying before they're born, 3 yr olds becoming parents, others living to be 250, my rellies dying in Norfolk Mass USA instead of Norfolk England UK etc etc. (The usual rubbish we all complain about.) Alternatively they want to copy an image from one tree to another and click on the wrong thing when attempting to make a link.Janet in Yorkshire
Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree
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Originally posted by Janet in Yorkshire View PostAlternatively they want to copy an image from one tree to another and click on the wrong thing when attempting to make a link.
I think sometimes we are very scathing of the glaringly obvious error, sometimes caused by mistakes using software, but come on, how many of you haven't made any yourself???
I made a big one once, making my ggg grandmother's date of burial 100 years later than her death. A typo of course but it stayed online for all to see for a couple of years before I noticed it. Since nobody told me, I hope nobody noticed, but I bet there were some who ran around dissing my whole research because of it but never told me so that it could be corrected.Caroline
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Originally posted by Caroline View Post.....
I made a big one once, making my ggg grandmother's date of burial 100 years later than her death. A typo of course but it stayed online for all to see for a couple of years before I noticed it. Since nobody told me, I hope nobody noticed, but I bet there were some who ran around dissing my whole research because of it but never told me so that it could be corrected.Janet in Yorkshire
Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree
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I think the on line tree repositories themselves must take some of the blame for this. I don't know if things have changed recently as I don't edit my tree on line any more, I upload gedcoms.
However not all that long ago at least one of the the online trees INSISTED on a date of birth being entered. If you didn't know it the advice given was to make a guess as even a wrong date of birth was better than none! I wonder how many trees there are out there with dates of birth that have been guessed and never updated.Co-ordinator for PoW project Southern Region 08
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