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 > >

" 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." Jaycie, Anyone who is serious about genealogy would care very much to have correct data. If I were in your situation, I'd post the correct information on the surname message boards, any appropriate surname maillist, and possibly even in a gedcom at GenCircles, which is my favorite. http://www.gencircles.com/ That would be in addition to emailing the people who have published the incorrect stuff on the internet. What they then do with the information would be up to their sense of integrity. Sharon