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Ancestry/Genealogy

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1. Does this happen often? Unfortunately, it appears that the answer is "Yes."

Sat Sep 1, 2012, 02:26 AM

Sep 2012

Is the bad info corrected somehow? It may be that some corrections are made. But not all are.

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Question: If bad info is entered into ancestry.com, do they correct it somehow? [View all] grasswire Sep 2012 OP

Does this happen often? Unfortunately, it appears that the answer is "Yes." AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2012 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author seaglass Sep 2012 #3

something similar happened to me grasswire Sep 2012 #7

Can't always rely on books retrogal Sep 2012 #10

This happened to me with one of my maternal lines. AverageJoe90 Nov 2013 #21

Yes CountAllVotes Sep 2012 #8

Oh no!! retrogal Sep 2012 #9

Frankly it irritates me CountAllVotes Sep 2012 #11

I understand... retrogal Sep 2012 #12

same here CountAllVotes Sep 2012 #13

I love Ancestry to a point, but damn those trees GobBluth Sep 2012 #14

I have decided to do this: only accept public records as truth grasswire Sep 2012 #16

Yes, this. /|\ PAMod Sep 2012 #19

even that can be annoying... grasswire Sep 2012 #20

Not with their user-submitted trees they don't Spider Jerusalem Sep 2012 #15

No and the user submitted trees are usually terrible kdmorris Sep 2012 #17

Hey, I'm dead! PatSeg Sep 2012 #18

Like some of the others... pipi_k Nov 2013 #22

I use the trees at ancestry as a first source... icymist Dec 2013 #23

Too many "errors" CountAllVotes Dec 2013 #24

I would use the user submitted trees as clues, not sources. OnionPatch Mar 2014 #25

I sometimes write a message to one who has entered an egregious mistake - No Vested Interest Mar 2014 #27

I did that pipi_k Mar 2014 #28