Greg, Thank you! I knew someone on here would be able to help me.  The worst part about this is that the family that is posting only live a few miles from me!! I would love to get together and compare what we all have and get it all right.  I have birth & death certificates plus a few marrige certificates for the people they are posting incorrect information on....so I KNOW my info is correct!  Blessings, Rita Smallcombe Advertising/Marketing Director Mayfaire and Derbyshire Renaissance Festivals www.mayfaireren.com and www.derbyshirerenfaire.com Check out my art work at: www.pookafairystudio.com and our leather work at: www.highlandsleather.com CARPE TARTANAM! (Seize the Tartan!) ________________________________ From: Greg Lovelace <greglovelace@comcast.net> To: lovelace@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, August 23, 2010 3:33:04 PM Subject: Re: [LL] irritated Hey, Rita At 02:40 PM 8/23/2010, you wrote: >... in Ancestry.com. There are 3 people who are posting incorrect >information on several of them!  I have written them numerous emails >asking to compare notes and figure out what is the correct >information but have received no replies... Anyone have a suggestion >of what to do? Unfortunately, this is the way things are in these days of internet genealogy.  What you need to do is make sure of your own data and sources, and make sure that anything you post is properly sourced.  This way you can cover *your* butt if someone comes after you  :-) Now, as to what to do with this misinformation on Ancestry... When you go to an individual in one of the public family trees on their site, there are the following tabs: Overview, Facts and Sources, Media Gallery, Comments, and Member Connect You can click on the "Comments" tab and post a comment for others to look at.  You might say that you believe this information to be in error, and leave your email address (or your Ancerstry login name) as a contact.  It probably defaults to the latter anyway.  If you do this enough, then maybe some of those posting the wrong information might finally get mad enough to contact you and start a dialog.  I have done something similar on some of the Rootsweb WorldConnect trees, and have never gotten in trouble with anyone over it. Good luck! Peace, Part of the Tree No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3089 - Release Date: 08/23/10 02:35:00 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Oh Rita, I can understand your irritation completely. I ran across a family tree for my husband's parents. The person who posted it had two wives listed for my father-in-law when, of course, I knew for a fact that he only had one wife, my husband's mother, and they had been married for 50+ years. When I emailed the person and asked them where they got their information, their reply was "I don't remember where exactly I got it and I'll get back to you." That was over 2 years ago . I never heard from the person again and that dang information is still out there! I take the majority of family trees on ancestry. com with a grain of salt. I've seen children born 2 or more years after the father died; I've seen children with birth dates years after the mother died; I think the best one though was a child born 25 years before the parents were even born! I agree with Greg about leaving comments when you know the information is wrong. I can't understand these people who post such blatantly erroneous information. It's almost like a game or race to get something out there whether or not its right or wrong. Lisa Owen Kennard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rita" <brnwyn98@yahoo.com> To: <lovelace@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [LL] irritated Greg, Thank you! I knew someone on here would be able to help me. The worst part about this is that the family that is posting only live a few miles from me!! I would love to get together and compare what we all have and get it all right. I have birth & death certificates plus a few marrige certificates for the people they are posting incorrect information on....so I KNOW my info is correct! Blessings, Rita Smallcombe Advertising/Marketing Director Mayfaire and Derbyshire Renaissance Festivals www.mayfaireren.com and www.derbyshirerenfaire.com Check out my art work at: www.pookafairystudio.com and our leather work at: www.highlandsleather.com CARPE TARTANAM! (Seize the Tartan!) ________________________________ From: Greg Lovelace <greglovelace@comcast.net> To: lovelace@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, August 23, 2010 3:33:04 PM Subject: Re: [LL] irritated Hey, Rita At 02:40 PM 8/23/2010, you wrote: >... in Ancestry.com. There are 3 people who are posting incorrect >information on several of them! I have written them numerous emails >asking to compare notes and figure out what is the correct >information but have received no replies... Anyone have a suggestion >of what to do? Unfortunately, this is the way things are in these days of internet genealogy. What you need to do is make sure of your own data and sources, and make sure that anything you post is properly sourced. This way you can cover *your* butt if someone comes after you :-) Now, as to what to do with this misinformation on Ancestry... When you go to an individual in one of the public family trees on their site, there are the following tabs: Overview, Facts and Sources, Media Gallery, Comments, and Member Connect You can click on the "Comments" tab and post a comment for others to look at. You might say that you believe this information to be in error, and leave your email address (or your Ancerstry login name) as a contact. It probably defaults to the latter anyway. If you do this enough, then maybe some of those posting the wrong information might finally get mad enough to contact you and start a dialog. I have done something similar on some of the Rootsweb WorldConnect trees, and have never gotten in trouble with anyone over it. Good luck! Peace, Part of the Tree No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3089 - Release Date: 08/23/10 02:35:00 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I will offer a defense of the person that has not revised their tree based on your comments. When I first started, I used Ancestry.com and I am sure there are some wrong entries. I know use FTM and need to publish to Ancestry.com to clean up that tree. I had a family member contact me regarding something that I had listed for the Donalson family. We exchanged a couple of emails and it is possible my entry is wrong but I don't want to clean anything up until I fully research the issue myself. However, I have been very focused on the Lovelace family that it will be quite some time before I get back to that issue. So perhaps there is a Donalson family member that is quite irritated with me right now but it is not that I don't care but that I have other priorities right now that I am working on. From my experience the majority of the members on Ancestry.com just click away and don't check sources or reasonableness of the trees that they are importing. At the same time I have been stuck and took the risk on someone's tree later to find the necessary source documents to support that entry. Public Trees can be both good and bad. I would just focus on listing the sources for your tree because members that care like myself will pay attention and rely on your information rather than the other family. Lori Me > James Leonard > Holt > Lynn Boyd > Robey R > Archibald > Elias > JBL -----Original Message----- From: lovelace-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lovelace-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rita Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 3:37 PM To: lovelace@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LL] irritated Greg, Thank you! I knew someone on here would be able to help me.  The worst part about this is that the family that is posting only live a few miles from me!! I would love to get together and compare what we all have and get it all right.  I have birth & death certificates plus a few marrige certificates for the people they are posting incorrect information on....so I KNOW my info is correct!  Blessings, Rita Smallcombe Advertising/Marketing Director Mayfaire and Derbyshire Renaissance Festivals www.mayfaireren.com and www.derbyshirerenfaire.com Check out my art work at: www.pookafairystudio.com and our leather work at: www.highlandsleather.com CARPE TARTANAM! (Seize the Tartan!) ________________________________ From: Greg Lovelace <greglovelace@comcast.net> To: lovelace@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, August 23, 2010 3:33:04 PM Subject: Re: [LL] irritated Hey, Rita At 02:40 PM 8/23/2010, you wrote: >... in Ancestry.com. There are 3 people who are posting incorrect >information on several of them!  I have written them numerous emails >asking to compare notes and figure out what is the correct >information but have received no replies... Anyone have a suggestion >of what to do? Unfortunately, this is the way things are in these days of internet genealogy.  What you need to do is make sure of your own data and sources, and make sure that anything you post is properly sourced.  This way you can cover *your* butt if someone comes after you  :-) Now, as to what to do with this misinformation on Ancestry... When you go to an individual in one of the public family trees on their site, there are the following tabs: Overview, Facts and Sources, Media Gallery, Comments, and Member Connect You can click on the "Comments" tab and post a comment for others to look at.  You might say that you believe this information to be in error, and leave your email address (or your Ancerstry login name) as a contact.  It probably defaults to the latter anyway.  If you do this enough, then maybe some of those posting the wrong information might finally get mad enough to contact you and start a dialog.  I have done something similar on some of the Rootsweb WorldConnect trees, and have never gotten in trouble with anyone over it. Good luck! Peace, Part of the Tree No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3089 - Release Date: 08/23/10 02:35:00 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hey again, Rita At 03:36 PM 8/23/2010, you wrote: >I have birth & death certificates plus a few marrige certificates >for the people they are posting incorrect information on....so I >KNOW my info is correct! Just a word of caution here. It is possible that birth and death certificates contain information that is not accurate. The information given on those documents is sometimes provided during a time of stress (especially death certificates) and subject to being mis-remembered by the informant. Sometimes the mother of an infant will attribute fatherhood to her husband when she had a dalliance with another man and got pregnant. There are all manners of circumstances which might result in incorrect data on some of these sources, so it is best to take care when avowing that your data is correct. I always try to get multiple corroborative sources whenever possible. You can never have too much evidence, but having too little is all too common. Peace, Part of the Tree, Greg

I completely agree with you Greg!  I do try to check multiple sources for all dates and places. Sometimes you only have one to go on though so it's tough.  My biggest beef is that she has my G grandmothers last name wrong.  I have several pieces of documentation that list the correct one.  If someone was to look at her tree they would go off in a completely wrong direction for that side of the family!  Blessings, Rita Smallcombe Advertising/Marketing Director Mayfaire and Derbyshire Renaissance Festivals www.mayfaireren.com and www.derbyshirerenfaire.com Check out my art work at: www.pookafairystudio.com and our leather work at: www.highlandsleather.com CARPE TARTANAM! (Seize the Tartan!) ________________________________ From: Greg Lovelace <greglovelace@comcast.net> To: lovelace@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, August 23, 2010 9:37:20 PM Subject: Re: [LL] irritated Hey again, Rita At 03:36 PM 8/23/2010, you wrote: >I have birth & death certificates plus a few marrige certificates >for the people they are posting incorrect information on....so I >KNOW my info is correct! Just a word of caution here.  It is possible that birth and death certificates contain information that is not accurate.  The information given on those documents is sometimes provided during a time of stress (especially death certificates) and subject to being mis-remembered by the informant.  Sometimes the mother of an infant will attribute fatherhood to her husband when she had a dalliance with another man and got pregnant.  There are all manners of circumstances which might result in incorrect data on some of these sources, so it is best to take care when avowing that your data is correct.  I always try to get multiple corroborative sources whenever possible.  You can never have too much evidence, but having too little is all too common. Peace, Part of the Tree, Greg ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message