I am sorry you feel resentful of my insinuation. My experience with Ancestry is that people just put a name with a family and NO REFERENCE such as a census. OR, they just REPEAT misspellings, instead of taking the time to correct it. What I do, BEFORE I add an individual who is associated in my tree, I LOOK for censuses or obits or marriage records to ENSURE the HINT is FACTUALLY associated with the individual in my tree. When I find spelling errors on the census, I make an ALTERNATIVE correction to Ancestry, so that a future researcher of my family/families, will be able to find the reference. I have come across people with your stated experience, who have CONCOCTED a story that sounds SO believable, only to find out that it was all pure speculation, made to sound like it was fact, as you described in your e-mails. BUT, to allow the fallacies to continue is just as bad as initiating it in the first place. In a message dated 10/12/2011 11:57:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, caroline.gurney@gmail.com writes: I resent your insinuation that I am a selfish person who does not share with others.