June, I too had a "sick" branch on my tree with all kinds of errors - in this case mostly due to a guy named Gustave Anjou, a "professional" genealogist in the early half of the 1900 who "created" genealogies - several in my line and other genealogists had used his information for their own. So I don't know where the creativity/inaccuracies begin and what was truth.
It was easier for me to just lop off the whole branch and start all over. Yes, DELETED about 1300 names starting with a great-grandmother and 8 generations with huge families of 12-16 kids who also had huge families. I'm starting with a clean mind and I am spending my time looking for original records instead of trying to figure out where my/his mistakes were or even whose family trees online are correct or not. There were several families who all had the same kids, same vital records but living in totally different places, sourcing on my part was far from very good anyway. Now I am working on accuracy as I go and I am not in a big rush to collect names. I want to leave an excellent, well sourced and accurate genealogy behind for my family. Why give them a bunch of junk? And if I don't get it ALL done, then they will get to have some of the fun of researching too. Good luck. Linda G On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> wrote: > On 22/03/2016 04:21, Cathy Pinner wrote: > >> >> It may be better to tag this branch making sure you note why you have >> tagged them in Advanced tagging so that you don' t use this tag # for >> something else. >> > > The Voice of Experience speaks: this is an *excellent* tip! > > I used to use tagging a lot because there was so much I wanted to > amend/correct after I had been using Legacy a while and learned better ways > of doing things. But I kept opening the program, looking a a group of > people with a particular tag and not having a clue why they were tagged! > Now I am assiduous about recording what each tag is being used for. > > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com >
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