hi Rooters , got another question for you , I hope it does not start a fire storm What do you do when you find an obvious mistake in data while adding family data / people to your file ?? Like this ,in the year 1717 " Altlussheim ,Baden-Württemberg, Hessen " Altlussheim Never was in them places !! Baden-Württemberg was not formed untill 1945 , an what is Hessen doing there ? it is on other side of area Altlussheimis was in Mannheim , still is , Phil

Make it in your database, Altlussheim, A. Schwetzingen, Baden and end of the story. Wuerttemberg use "Kreis" while Baden use "Amt" as in "A." You can omit "A." if you want to. I will never be able to stand mis-placed localities. Even "Saarland bezkirk" never existed and still some do that. Bezkirk is used by Bavaria while Rheinland uses "kreis". David S. On 6/10/2012 8:01 PM, Phil Stevens wrote: > hi Rooters , got another question for you , I hope it does not start a > fire storm > What do you do when you find an obvious mistake in data while adding > family data / people to your file ?? Like this ,in the year 1717 " > Altlussheim ,Baden-Württemberg, Hessen " > Altlussheim Never was in them places !! Baden-Württemberg was not formed > untill 1945 , an what is Hessen doing there ? it is on other side of area > Altlussheimis was in Mannheim , still is , Phil > > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi All   To be honest I have just given up. The amount of my ancestors that were born in Glous FRANCE not Gloucester, UK is beyond comprehension. You would have thought people would have spotted the mistake but I guess they just select from the drop down list in ancestry and Bob's your uncle, living in France! And no I still can't speak French despite this 'illustrious' past....   Janine   ________________________________ From: Phil Stevens <bstevens27@frontier.com> To: roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, 11 June 2012, 3:01 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Oh what to do what to do   hi Rooters , got another question for you , I hope it does not start a fire storm   What do you do when you find an obvious mistake in data  while adding family data / people to your file ??  Like this ,in the year 1717 " Altlussheim ,Baden-Württemberg, Hessen " Altlussheim Never was in them places !! Baden-Württemberg was not formed untill 1945 , an what is Hessen doing there ?  it is on other side of area   Altlussheimis was in Mannheim  , still is  ,  Phil ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Phil Well, first of all, if I found something like that, I'd question the integrity of ALL the information, not just the place. . . Is this an example of sloppy research? Or "family tradition" or a "scribner error." BUT, what I'd do in my file (because I put everything in, at least by notation), is to put the information in with caveats, and an explanation. Born: 1717 Place: STB Altlussheim, Baden Wurttemburg, Hessen STB means "said to be" In the source citation I'd have a "surety" of -3 (as in "really? What was it really?") I would put a note in the citation stating that Altlussheim wasn't in Baden, but in Mannheim. . . . So, you don't know if the person was born in Altlussheim, or born somewhere else in Baden. . . OR, if you have other evidence that the event took place in Altlussheim, Mannheim, then you can use THAT source for your information. You can, in most databases have more than one version of an event. In The Master Genealogist, which I use, you pick which one is "primary." Pat In Tucson -----Original Message----- From: roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Phil Stevens Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 7:01 PM To: roots@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Oh what to do what to do hi Rooters , got another question for you , I hope it does not start a fire storm What do you do when you find an obvious mistake in data while adding family data / people to your file ?? Like this ,in the year 1717 " Altlussheim ,Baden-Württemberg, Hessen " Altlussheim Never was in them places !! Baden-Württemberg was not formed untill 1945 , an what is Hessen doing there ? it is on other side of area Altlussheimis was in Mannheim , still is , Phil ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message