Re: My Pet Peeve! A warning!

Diana,

That is one of the reasons I have not got very much information on the
website also why I haven't amended or added to the one on WorldConnect.

Hopefully, as time goes by future researchers will have the sense to check
and double check everything before accepting as true.

So sorry for the pain it has caused you. On the other hand, if it's on the
internet, unfortunately it is fair game for the lazy copycats.

Di

"thalauafu" <dmlfamilyhistory@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mailman.172.1234682683.4254.genbrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
After being contacted by someone who supposedly connected with me through
a
common ancestor, I realised
that this person had taken a name, and without any research at all, had
linked themselves into my tree. If they
had bothered to do the required work and buy the required certificates
etc.
they would have known that the
person they claimed to have been their ancestor actually died at the age
of
2!

Because of this, I have been looking at both the Genes Reunited website
and others, including Ancestry.com and I have
found all sorts of mistakes involving people who claim to have the same
ancestors as myself, these compounded
by many others who have obviously simply copied the information that the
first contributor wrongly uploaded and
accepting that it was true. It is easy to see that the information has
then
been copied by others, as all make
the same mistake, albeit one that would have been easily picked up if
researched correctly.

This really gets up my nose as future generations are going to take all
this
as gospel, and will be thoroughly misled.

So any newcomers, beware of taking any information from genealogy websites
unless you are prepared to spend the money and the
time to look it up and prove it for yourselves. And shame on all of the
people who don't do this, but 'steal' others
information, adding it to their own, instead of doing their own research.
This just makes a mockery of serious family historians.
Diana


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