• Corrections to Ancestry Trees

    From Rhonda Brownlow@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 16 11:08:14 2017
    Hello List

    Can anyone tell me please how to contact ancestry to correct entries in
    family trees they have my gr gr grandfather William Brownlow married in UK before he was sent as a 18 year old convict to NSW in 1820, then they have
    him heading for US, in fact he never left after he as free and married
    Selena Eacott at Narellan they moved to Crooked Corner near Binda NSW where
    he died as an was buried on his farm. I have his will and other family documents to support my research.



    I am sure others have had similar experiences with Ancestry's errors so I
    would be good if I could correct or remove the errors.



    Cheers Rhonda Brownlow

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  • From Susie Zada@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 16 11:18:40 2017
    Hi Rhonda,

    Surely these are Ancestry errors but errors by people who created the
    tree(s) in question?

    In that case you should contact the owner of the tree - definitely not Ancestry's problem but inferior research by the tree's owner.

    Regards ... Susie Z


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    Hello List

    Can anyone tell me please how to contact ancestry to correct entries in
    family trees they have my gr gr grandfather William Brownlow married in UK before he was sent as a 18 year old convict to NSW in 1820, then they have
    him heading for US, in fact he never left after he as free and married
    Selena Eacott at Narellan they moved to Crooked Corner near Binda NSW where
    he died as an was buried on his farm. I have his will and other family documents to support my research.



    I am sure others have had similar experiences with Ancestry's errors so I
    would be good if I could correct or remove the errors.



    Cheers Rhonda Brownlow


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  • From MargM@21:1/5 to Rhonda Brownlow on Mon Oct 16 12:16:46 2017
    To: genanz@rootsweb.com (genanz@rootsweb.com)

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    From: Rhonda Brownlow <brownlowr@dodo.com.au>
    To: <genanz@rootsweb.com>
    Sent: 16/10/2017 11:08:14 AM
    Subject: Corrections to Ancestry Trees ________________________________________________________________________________

    Hello List

    Can anyone tell me please how to contact ancestry to correct entries in
    family trees they have my gr gr grandfather William Brownlow married in UK before he was sent as a 18 year old convict to NSW in 1820, then they have
    him heading for US, in fact he never left after he as free and married
    Selena Eacott at Narellan they moved to Crooked Corner near Binda NSW where
    he died as an was buried on his farm. I have his will and other family documents to support my research.



    I am sure others have had similar experiences with Ancestry's errors so I
    would be good if I could correct or remove the errors.



    Hi Rhonda
    They ARE NOT Ancestrys trees . Ancestry didnt do any of the research ,be it real or what a lot of it is " copy & paste genealogy" or folk who just collect names & dates. Never been able to work out why anyone would do that.


    you could try contacting the person who put the info up on line. But often they don't respond .

    Bye

    MargM NSW


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  • From Doug Laidlaw@21:1/5 to Rhonda Brownlow on Tue Oct 17 02:30:13 2017
    On 16/10/17 11:08, Rhonda Brownlow wrote:
    Hello List

    Can anyone tell me please how to contact ancestry to correct entries in family trees they have my gr gr grandfather William Brownlow married in UK before he was sent as a 18 year old convict to NSW in 1820, then they have him heading for US, in fact he never left after he as free and married
    Selena Eacott at Narellan they moved to Crooked Corner near Binda NSW where he died as an was buried on his farm. I have his will and other family documents to support my research.



    I am sure others have had similar experiences with Ancestry's errors so I would be good if I could correct or remove the errors.



    There are some beauties out there, Rhonda. One tree has my ancestor
    Thomas Boykett living in two States of the USA as somebody spelling
    their surname differently. He never set foot there. I did a quick
    search of the LDS records and came up with the correct family.

    Another tree had a series of magazine articles about the composer
    William Wallace (a different person from Braveheart.) At the time I was working on a connection with a descendant of Ferdinand Meurant's
    marriage to Sophia. Wallace came into that indirectly. He spent some
    time in Australia, and a concert of his music was performed here at
    about the same time.

    According to the tree, Wallace married the researcher's daughter. The
    only problem was, that the tree itself said that the daughter was only
    one year old when Wallace died in France.

    There is much copying and pasting. All available trees may agree, and
    still be completely wrong. Shakespeare was right: "What does it
    matter? His name's the same."

    But as others have said, it is up to the tree owners, not Ancestry to
    fix things up. The trees will have a "contact" link. To many of them,
    your relative is fairly peripheral. If they are still active, they
    can't be bothered fixing the entry. One researcher who has been in the
    game about as long as I have, shows my brother as an uncle. I have
    asked him at least twice to fix it, but the error is still there.

    Watch the new LDS FamilySearch records. That is a collection of trees
    just like yours and mine and these defective ones. They are not tested
    for accuracy. Always at least check and confirm what others have put up.

    Doug.

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