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| From | Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | soc.genealogy.britain, alt.genealogy, england.genealogy.misc, free.uk.genealogy |
| Subject | Re: Percy Ellwood |
| Date | 2018-09-01 05:25 +0200 |
| Organization | Khanya Publications |
| Message-ID | <b21kodtovb728vi4hup5sbt9t4u0dep74d@4ax.com> (permalink) |
| References | <k3bhodt43kf4scp3ig9ebtd8fclcb96705@4ax.com> <pmb7kr$60q$1@dont-email.me> <fusvbiFq0tdU1@mid.individual.net> |
Cross-posted to 4 groups.
On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 14:49:38 +0100, Jenny M Benson
<nemonews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>On 31-Aug-18 12:09 PM, knuttle wrote:
>> Unfortunately this error still appears in some online trees, and their
>> owner seem un interested in correcting their mistake.
>
>I often wonder why so many people publish their trees but seem totally
>uninterested in accuracy or in making contact with possible relatives.
>
>I often contact people along the lines of "I see you have Joe Bloggs on
>your tree, who is my nth cousin n x removed. Can you tell me what your
>Source is for ... as the information I have found suggests ... I am
>happy to share with you", but only very rarely do I get any response.
In this case, the error was made by me, and I was able to correct it
within hours, using theb resources of FamilySearch. But it was just a
lucky chance that a brother was staying with the family in the 1911
Census of Canada that enabled us to discover it.
There's another instance where seven Ancestry trees had the wrong
information and three had the right information. Ancestry encourages
people to copy information without checking, and so if more people
copy the wrong information than the right information, it looks like a
majority view, so people assume it must be right.
More information about that here: https://t.co/nDxaSbWDGH
--
Steve Hayes
Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/
http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com
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Percy Ellwood Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2018-08-31 05:14 +0200
Re: Percy Ellwood knuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-08-31 07:09 -0400
Re: Percy Ellwood Jenny M Benson <nemonews@hotmail.co.uk> - 2018-08-31 14:49 +0100
Re: Percy Ellwood knuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-08-31 15:17 -0400
Re: Percy Ellwood Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2018-09-01 05:25 +0200
Re: Percy Ellwood Ruth Wilson <ruth.wilson@virgin.net> - 2018-09-01 16:44 +0100
Re: Percy Ellwood knuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-09-01 12:45 -0400
Re: Percy Ellwood Daniel60 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2018-09-02 19:09 +1000
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