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Buckeye_Democrat

(15,205 posts)
13. No, they're not.
Thu Nov 18, 2021, 01:00 AM
Nov 2021

They have the same problem as Ancestry among their submitted family trees.

I even saw a family tree on a computer at a local LDS Library years ago (using a CD sent to them from Utah) in which the submitter claimed to know their ancestry going back to Adam and Eve!

It was pretty impressive, actually, because at least the submitter seemed to have all of his supposed ancestors, famous historical figures, in chronological order -- e.g., Aristotle coming after Socrates. They just moved great distances across the globe sometimes to beget some other historically significant person.

I wondered if some young Mormon was angry about being compelled to research their family tree, so he decided to invent one for the ages!

So many family trees even have supposed parents born AFTER their children!

Ancestry is fine if the researcher mostly sticks to original sources.

People shouldn't quickly believe the cited sources in family trees either because those can be lies too! I found one that correctly named the title of a film from the LDS, and even the film number, but the supposed marriage contained within it was NOT there!

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I think if you have an account you can do it. Ocelot II Nov 2021 #1
I found it too intrusive, and got off it. secondwind Nov 2021 #2
I actually leave some incorrect information on my trees Sherman A1 Nov 2021 #3
I get your point, but facts are facts bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #5
No, they're not. Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2021 #13
I have seen a family tree for one wnylib Nov 2021 #14
Absolutely! I especially learned to question... Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2021 #15
I am on Ancestry all the time, it is a hobby of mine. Irish_Dem Nov 2021 #4
Ugh mahina Nov 2021 #6
You don't correct other people's trees. You make your own. njhoneybadger Nov 2021 #7
I had a family tree done in 1895 or so. I felt an obligation to put it applegrove Nov 2021 #8
Imagine finding your 1895 tree expanded with 3 times the number of people in your families bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #9
Yes. For me I wasn't afraid of mistakes, I can see how aggravating that would be. For me it applegrove Nov 2021 #10
OK - you need to realize this isn't how Ancestry works. Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2021 #11
Yes, I'm beginning to realize bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #12
I've actually hired them on and with my finding out stuff they were pretty successful Historic NY Jul 2022 #19
A lot of family trees are completely inaccurate csziggy Apr 2022 #16
If it's a family tree, and you have an account Montauk6 Jul 2022 #17
Lots of people jumble stuff they think is theirs.... Historic NY Jul 2022 #18
True surnames may timms139 Mar 2024 #20
The census takers in any given area tended to be the ethnicity of earlier immigrants bucolic_frolic Mar 2024 #21
Supposedly my grandfather had a... duncang Jun 2024 #22
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