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CountAllVotes

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13. same here
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 11:00 AM
Sep 2012

I recently was contacted by my great great grandmother's family from Ireland. I was told that they suspected a connection to San Francisco but could never verify it. I have all of that info. on her and sent it to them.

This lady in turn sent me pictures of my great great great grandfather and even had a copy of his death cert. along with photographs of him, their homes in Kilkenny, etc.!!

Wow is all I can say!

I also found my mother's family that was never known who/where she was her entire life in 2008. I was contacted on Xmas eve 2008 by my 1st cousin I never knew I had and she lives in Indiana and she was in the same boat -- never knew a thing about the family. She has written an entire 200 pg. book on this family and she sent me a copy of it! again!

So this fool that stole my cousin ... well good luck finding any links from this line as there really aren't many to be found best I know.

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Does this happen often? Unfortunately, it appears that the answer is "Yes." AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2012 #1
The Decorah Norwegian Heritage Genealogiest deemed "Interent Genealogy is kickysnana Sep 2012 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author seaglass Sep 2012 #3
I let myself be led completely off track on one of my maternal branches polly7 Sep 2012 #4
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
When researching it is usually the researchers responsibility to use the generation rules to check jwirr Sep 2012 #5
They have a function that allows you to submit corrections to census indexing errors. kestrel91316 Sep 2012 #6
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
Up to each editor of a tree and viewers to inform of any mistakes. I've come applegrove Mar 2014 #26
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
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