Karen, Ancestry does have its own errors. I have been trying for several years to get them to correct the records where they indicate that Richmond City VA is in Wise County, VA. Wise County has a Richmond District. I have folks on my tree and I know where they were and it was NOT Wise County.
-----Original Message-----
From: KAREN DALE <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, May 18, 2010 9:40 am
Subject: Re: Ancestry Family Trees
The sources are nice--one click gets you to the right census image without
aving to search elsewhere. Frankly, picking on Ancestry is discrimination-junk
bounds in many locations. The web is simply a depository for people's
nformation--it's the material, not the web site, that is "at fault." Last night
went searching for a friend's great grandfather--one Ancestry "tree" had him
opelessly confused with another family by the same name. That's not Ancestry's
ault. The person even included the right census as a source--which gave his
other's name--then in the tree gave him the wrong parents! Ancestry (or any
ther site) is supposed to police people's stupidity?
Now, if you want to criticize Ancestry's transcription skills--hey, I'm on! On
he 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
amily trees, one world trees and gedcoms the new family trees at ancestry have
place for source citations, media, photos, stories and so on. You can click on
person and see at a glance if the person's records has been sourced and see
he source.
I never had a tree at ancestry before because there was so much wrong info on
hose there, now I do and I am slowly building it with the addition of as many
ources and other data as I can. I may not be able to go back to the middle ages
s some claim but at least what I do have will be mostly sourced. We all should
e so lucky as to trace our ancestors back to when they arrived in this country
nd those of us in the South are doubly lucky if we can after all the
estruction of records during the Civil War.
Clay Gullatt
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