Comments on: Tuesday’s Tip – Commenting on Trees in Ancestry http://allmybranches.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/tuesdays-tip-commenting-on-trees-in-ancestry/ My Foray into My Midwestern Roots Tue, 07 May 2013 16:02:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The New Genealogist http://allmybranches.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/tuesdays-tip-commenting-on-trees-in-ancestry/#comment-1263 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:10:55 +0000 http://allmybranches.wordpress.com/?p=2017#comment-1263 Such a good tip! I’ve tried messaging people on Ancestry, eager to share information so that I could help send them on the right path, but they never respond. I’ve seen ten family trees following the same wrong person as one ancestor’s wife simply because they all copied from each other.

]]> By: talesinthetree http://allmybranches.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/tuesdays-tip-commenting-on-trees-in-ancestry/#comment-1250 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:01:05 +0000 http://allmybranches.wordpress.com/?p=2017#comment-1250 Thank you! I have resigned myself to trusting only those links on Ancestry.com that have source records, although personal family trees can be used as clues to more information.

Whenever possible I also correct census transcription errors on Ancestry when I know for certain from family members that spelling of a name is incorrect, i.e. changing “Wallie” to the correct “Willie.”

I had sent my partially “fictional” information to a relative to peruse and that person uploaded it along with his information to Ancestry…I cringe every time I come across it! Thanks for the tip!

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