Is anyone on Ancestry I need some help

you cannot change another persons tree but you can click on the owner of tree and you can send a private message correcting the information.

I have seen this many times when people guess instead of verifying.

Siope

Not an Ancestry one, but I once saw online a complete stranger whose alleged family tree would have made him my dad.

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Ludicrous, isn't it!

On one of the genealogy websites there was an entry which said that my grandmother, ( a vicars daughter, born 1869) had given birth to three children before she married!

BlueBelle,
Have you found a new branch of the family tree?
I'm so curious now!!

I cant remember how its done but I do know that you can contact them privately.

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This misinformation is about my Nan (who along with my grandad. had a big hand in bringing me up ) ) so I think
I d know well who she was married to and what children she had🤣 it’s not about inaccurate long ago information

I did message the lady and kindly explained but no answer and no correction although she is active daily Very frustrating

I have done my family tree both sides back to late 1600 s many years ago long before there was internet interest all done in libraries, register offices, and churches/ graveyards I ve found many distant ‘relatives and met and had lunch with a distant cousin from Canada had lunch with two others at various times one lady from Netherlands and one gentleman from London I just thought with all the new DNA it would be fun to find more information and more ‘cousins’
I have found a second cousin whose Dad and and my dad lived about a mile apart but seemed to have no relationship never even heard Dad speak of him ( I don’t think there was any awful reason) so that’s nice
But just VERY frustrating

I wondered if anyone has had an update on their DNA from Ancestry? I am quite disilllusioned with them as they have taken some areas off and added others. They have also tried to change my husband's cousin from his paternal side (which he knows is true) to his maternal side. I know they compare DNA all the time as more and more people are added to their database, but it does seem there is some inaccuracy. Regarding their 'Traits', some of those are wrong too, but I can't change them! I have now ordered a DNA kit from 23And Me to compare! What are your thoughts?

I wondered about the latest update too JudyBloom.
I have no English at all according to Ancestry yet my family goes back in Gloucestershire and Norfolk for generations.
They can't all have been unfaithful spouses, can they ?

Suddenly I am 1% Icelandic. Where is that from!

I don't really mind and like others have met many cousins through Genealogy and DNA.

Just at the weekend I met up with a cousin, in Newcastle. Her gt gran and mine were half sisters but mine emigrated to NZ in 1866. She didn't know anything about my side, whereas I knew her gt grans name but had lost the trail when she married and changed her name.

you will probably get no response people do not like to be told they are wrong. I find many people hijack my family member and they have no right to do so .

Having done my Ancestry DNA and finding out my Dad isn’t my Dad after all, there may be some people wondering why I’m now on their family tree, and who I am!

Yes my D N A profile has changed from Norwegian/ Iceland to Denmark and German don’t see how it can change ?

Mine’s changed,too. I think as more and more people do tests they gather up results and see where they originated from. I still have the Welsh in me but now have some significant amount of German and more Scottish. I know the aGerman stuff dates back to the 16 th century and always wondered why it didn’t appear before. It is interesting though,especially comparing with other family members. Still got the good old Norwegian - gee they were busy that lot, considering the small population.

BlueBelle

Yes my D N A profile has changed from Norwegian/ Iceland to Denmark and German don’t see how it can change ?

The kind of testing offered by companies such as Ancestry doesn't compare your DNA with that of your ancestors. It compares it with people who have provided their DNA. The database is growing all the time, but poorer people and those from non-European ethnic backgrounds are under-represented.

However, it's misleading. For example, if a sibling of one of your ancestors moved to another country (eg Germany), there will probably be a cluster of people in Germany who have similar genetic markers to you. The testing company will report that you have X% German DNA, which of course you haven't.

Most of your DNA isn't matched because distantly related people haven't contributed their DNA to the database. Some countries (eg France) ban people from using genetic testing, so if you have French ancestors, they won't show up. You don't have to go back that far before you have more ancestors than you have strands of DNA, some DNA (which could have provided information) is lost.

The reason the results change over time is because a group of your distant relatives has contributed results to the database which weren't there before.

I have come to a dead end with one ancestor in the early 1800s.
There is no record of either his birth or his death to be found, just his marriage and the baptisms of the children, but his wife was definitely a widow before 1850, and almost certainly before 1840 when she was 75 and living with one of her widowed sons.

Someone else's tree gives a date of death for him that would have made him over 100 years old (which we do know he wasn't). They have failed to notice or take into account that the ancestor in question had a son with the same Christian name who died in the year they have used.

They have also added some parents for our ancestor, seemingly on the grounds that someone with the same name was baptised in the same large county around a date that would have been feasible. They haven't checked any further to find the records showing that it can't be the same person.

I have found dozens of similarly 'lazy' errors relating to other people on my tree, but am slightly afraid of contacting the trees owners in case they take offence, though I will be grateful if anyone contacts me to point out my own errors. I know there will be some, as I occasionally spot something myself that I have overlooked or recorded wongly by mistake.

It is a fascinating hobby, though. Sometimes establishing a link requires a long jigsaw-type process, and a bit of luck, but it feels great when it comes together.

The latest Ancestry DNA update has just given me a 2% link to Denmark too.
I take those with a pinch of salt, though.

Oldnproud

The latest Ancestry DNA update has just given me a 2% link to Denmark too.
I take those with a pinch of salt, though.

If you're from England, you almost certainly do have some DNA in common with Danes. I doubt if there's anybody with English ancestry who doesn't have Danish DNA.

I have contacted people with wrong information of my family as close as my grandad and granny Oldandproud They didn’t even have the manners to answer me and the wrong information is still there married my Nan to someone else and given her a son which she never had

I was thinking of getting my kids to buy me membership of world wide Ancestry for Christmas for a year. Having read the comments here I wonder if it is worth it. How accurate is it? I need a site that does Irish ancestry which isn't easy as the records were blown up. Anyone else Irish/Northern Irish/Ulster Scots out there who can advise? I tried Roots Ireland for a year and learned absolutely nothing new.

It's an excellent way of researching your own family history. Devorgilla
As long as you don't copy other people's trees without checking them first.

Not all Irish records were destroyed in the Four Courts Fire. Plenty of parish records are available. It was mainly census records which went up in smoke.

You need to work at it and not expect it all to be easy!

I have found cousins online and also through having tested my DNA.

Devorgilla I can't comment on Irish records because (as far as I know) I don't have any Irish ancestors. However, I do have some relatives worldwide and would love a subscription - I only have access to UK records. I think Ancestry is the best site for records. Findmypast is good too, but it's quite expensive for what you get (ideally, I'd have both).

IMO the sites are worth it for the records, but not for the DNA testing. You might strike lucky and find a distant cousin, but the "ancestry" results have been described as "genetic astrology".

I use the ancestry site to do my research etc but the tree I have on there is not particularly accurate as I use something different for my ‘real’ tree and don’t always correct my errors on ancestry. Needless to say loads of people have copied my erroneous tree as fact. So do check everything !

Growstuff I don’t think they are worth it for the records I did much better finding my relations the old fashioned way and I m still annoyed that my Nan is on trees with completely wrong information

There are a lot of errors. Names were so common eg. If you yelled Alfred in some streets half of the boys would come running. Often children had the same name as a parent. All you can do is contact them and tell them what you know as a fact.

I had a slightly different problem when I was contacted by somebody on behalf of their mum, I suspect they were quite young and wanted me to join other sites and provide photos. I just didn’t want to get into spending more money and felt guilty for not helping them more.

I've had so much pleasure from finding and meeting relations who had also been searching for my family on Ancestry, that it's been one of the best things I've ever invested time and money in.

Late one night after years of searching I just thought I need to pay for access to the World Wide version and there they all were! The people from the UK censuses on someone else's tree. We've met several times both in the UK and in the US.

Perhaps I was just lucky that the relatives I found not only had identical documents to mine, but photographs which supported our claims. I became a cousin for the first time in my life and it was true!

I too have found trees with my family members linked to Kings and Queens of France, English royals and Scottish Bairds. Someone claims that my grandfather had an affair and fathered two children. I know beyond doubt that the dates don't fit and it wasn't him, but the other poster refuses to accept that.

With reference to the difference in the American records, I've found quite a lot of 'snobbery' from descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers towards my poverty stricken agricultural workers from Norfolk! One person was quite rude.

It's a fantastic hobby for me.