In defense of submitters of some of that bad information that is out there on Ancestry.com and other websites. In my earlier years of genealogy research I was anxious to get my tree online so that other researchers could contact me with updates and corrections to my tree. Once you have a tree online, it is VERY difficult to get it deleted from the database of whichever group you are using. I have not submitted a tree to anyone in several years, and have called, emailed, and written to the various websites requesting that my old trees be deleted. They are still there and to make matters worse, they have been downloaded and merged into other trees that are also on the websites so, once incorrect information is submitted, it is almost if not impossible to delete. For this reason I will never again submit any information that I have to an online database. I have even found one instance of a submission I made on paper to Everton Genealogy service in 1980. I was requesting information on the marriage of Franklin Preston Midkiff to Ellender Oliver. In the request I said that the marriage probably occurred around 1825 in Lincoln County, TN. There is a marriage records CD that is being sold with that information on it to this day. I did not say they were married on that date in my request, I asked if they could find a record of their marriage. To my knowledge no record of that marriage has ever been found, and the CD is sold giving that information as fact. All of us make errors, sometimes we find information that we are sure is correct only to find out later that it is not. If your database is online, may heaven help you get it corrected, because the various entities will not. Mary Lou Midkiff