Advice if poss re Ancestry

Ph1lomena

Make sure you make sure that the hints definitely relate to your ancestor. Looking at other family trees highlighted by hints can highlight all sorts of inaccuracies where people have just added information without checking it's fact. I have all the historical paperwork for the maternal side of my family so I know the actual details but one example was my Grandfather acquiring a middle name he didn't have in someone else's tree.

I would agree with this I have two families with the same name even my great grandmothers x4 had the same Christian name and Ancestry insist on joining the two together even on through lines and giving me relevant clues to families I have not got round to. I have complained at least 4 times and they have taken no notice. Hope you get some luck.

Oh sorry nanna8 it's just that I can't understand how it's possible to research thousands of people with any accuracy. I've just looked and one or two of my (four) trees are less than 200 people, but the lives of the direct ancestors have been tracked to the nth degree! Every census, every place they've worked or lived researched, relatives contacted, stories written in detail with photographs.

Some of their siblings have been done in that much detail too, but not all. If there are 9 or 11 children then I sometimes just put the basic details of birth, marriage and death. I don't always want to research such huge families in detail unless they are especially interesting for some reason.

I don’t understand these updates. My closest cousin has being omitted from my close family even though she is still listed on other family members which still include me.