Hello, I read every post and now I am interested in this subject. I have also found people who put two families not related at all together just by finding a male with same name and approx. birthdate and went way back on wrong line. Now it is sealed and on line on Family Search, how can this happen if not proven lines? The other man who she used ,was a Dr. and very wealthy man with a big family and even a monument to him here in Massachusetts. I have always wanted to somehow correct it but do not know how to go about it, any suggestions? I wrote to the woman who did the research but was never contacted by her. This week I have been contacted about two family lines that had at least one child missing, one the eldest and on the other the youngest and they ask where I got the family info. I am happy to share with anyone if they are not rude and question my info., please be nice when asking for my data. I never enter anything unless I have proven it, I still use my family group sheets and enter in pencil until proven, then I put data into computer program. After 33 years I still get a big thrill when I find proof of any of my lineages, I would never enter doubtful data and have it "sealed" or used by others. Any comments or ideas out there?. Helen ----- Original Message ----- From: "jaycie" <jayciebee@nls.net> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [RC-ROOTS] doldrums > I've been lurking and enjoying. The doldrums exchanges were delightful, and > now the inaccuracy comment has called my fingers to the keyboard. > > To follow up on Sharon's comments about the duplications of mistakes in huge > GEDCOM-generated pedigrees .... I come to a question I have been stewing > about. Should we do anything when we see the mistakes? I am talking about > two things in particular: > 1. An error that has been copied over and over even though it is flagrantly > incorrect and anyone with the slightest smattering of early Plymouth > (Massachusetts) history who might look at this would see practically at a > glance where the error lies. > 2. The only information I have ever seen published on my great grandfather > is incorrect -- although taken from an old well known and much quoted family > history. I think I am the only one still bearing his name who knows or > cares, but collaterals might not even know how to make the connection. > > I don't know enough about genealogy netiquette to know what might be > appropriate. What do you suggest? or should I just let it be and figure the > unwary deserve what they get? > > Auntie TIA -- LOL > That's Thanks In Advance and Love You Lots or is it Laughing Out Loud > > Jaycie > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sharon Workman" <workman@dreamscape.com> > To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:38 PM > Subject: Re: [RC-ROOTS] doldrums > > > > Data entry - Have you seen pedigrees where the owner has merged data - > > incorporated whole gedcoms at once instead of entering each person > > individually? Such people end up with a lot of names in their collections > > and some monstrous mistakes as well as a great many duplications. There > are > > pedigrees at Ancestry.com with 200,000 names, at least one with 500,000 > > names. Can you figure out why anyone would want that? > > > > I have a lot of people in my tree - 28,490 - but I entered every bit of > data > > by hand, so whatever mistakes are there are mine alone. LOL!! > > > > At first, all I wanted in my tree were the ancestors, but then I began to > > add the aunts, uncles, and cousins, and that let me make a lot of > > connections with some pretty wonderful people. To me, that's the best > part > > of genealogy finding kinfolks and sharing our "stuff" with each other. > > > > Sharon > > > > > > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM DIGEST MODE: > > please click here and send: > > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > To post your SURNAMES ON MESSAGE BOARDS: > http://boards.ancestry.com/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >