Not sure what you mean, Christina. Do you mean do you add the incorrect
information to your file as the correct date, then no.
Alt. Birth/Death/etc is a great way to save these dates without having them
change your main information. And sometimes, those *wrong* dates prove to be
right...just not with the person you thought they should be with. I just
solved a vexing problem of a woman with conflicting birth/death dates given by
several different people...turns out there were two women who were first
cousins... two of the people had only one of the cousins in the file but with
the wrong parents...once we sorted out the parents & cousins, all the dates
made sense.
Of course, some information you find is ridiculous, for instance, someone puts
the marriage date at a time when the woman would be 10 years old or has her
first child born before she was...I've actually come across both of these in
online trees. In that case, ignore, ignore, ignore... <g>
With spelling you have a whole new game, I have an ancestor that was called
Cynthia Ann, Cynthia Anna, Cindi Ann, Cynthianna... she is so far back that
there is no birth record nor bible record & two names were used more than the
others so I chose one... Cynthianna ... as the main name & put the others in
AKA with the source for each.
With surnames, different branches of the family could have evolved different
spelling & it is understandable that as they research back, they change the
spelling to the one they know best. I don't think that one should change a
source spelling of a name (assuming the source was from the same time period as
the person). I put the surnames in as I find them... using the others in
AKA...again using the spelling most common for each individual or the time
period.
If you mean do you correct the online information, then yes. I put up
corrections on Ancestry.com all the time & appreciate others who do the same.
Rootsweb has a way you can add notes to online trees, too. But, I only do it
if I have PROVED the information, I never do it if I have only one or two weak
sources. They may be right... <g>
Sally
I am at my end with this question. I think I know the answers but I need to
ask.
When you find something on the internet or written in a book, do you correct
the spelling or places or date adjustments if you know they are not correct.
Such as the name of a state in a country?
Also the year. If you have a date of marriage 1856 and the date of birth for
the bride is 1850 do you still put that in the marriage field or just a
notation that you suspect it is not correct?
any help will be appreciated,
Christina
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