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Re: Ancestry Family Trees
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KAREN DALE <[log in to unmask]>
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Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 18 May 2010 06:40:09 -0700
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The sources are nice--one click gets you to the right census image without having to search elsewhere. Frankly, picking on Ancestry is discrimination-junk abounds in many locations. The web is simply a depository for people's information--it's the material, not the web site, that is "at fault." Last night I went searching for a friend's great grandfather--one Ancestry "tree" had him hopelessly confused with another family by the same name. That's not Ancestry's fault. The person even included the right census as a source--which gave his mother's name--then in the tree gave him the wrong parents!  Ancestry (or any other site) is supposed to police people's stupidity? 

Now, if you want to criticize Ancestry's transcription skills--hey, I'm on!  On the other hand, no one else has as complete a set of census records... 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Clay Gullatt<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 8:03 PM
  Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Ancestry Family Trees


  Apparently few are using the new family trees at ancestry.com. Unlike the old family trees, one world trees and gedcoms the new family trees at ancestry have a place for source citations, media, photos, stories and so on. You can click on a person and see at a glance if the person's records has been sourced and see the source. 

  I never had a tree at ancestry before because there was so much wrong info on those there, now I do and I am slowly building it with the addition of as many sources and other data as I can. I may not be able to go back to the middle ages as some claim but at least what I do have will be mostly sourced. We all should be so lucky as to trace our ancestors back to when they arrived in this country and those of us in the South are doubly lucky if we can after all the destruction of records during the Civil War.

  Clay Gullatt

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