So when you go to ancestry or family search and are able to hook into a
record that appears to match yours (correct names and dates) but there are
no sources attached, cited, or copies of documents, do you trust that this
really is your person? I am always careful to both cite my source and add
Barb
If you mean data from someone’s family tree…… I usually try to contact the
person who posted it to find out their relationship and the sources they used.
Sounds good, right? But, my experience on Ancestry is that the person I contact
usually just copied the tree info from others, so no hel
No, anything on the Internet, whether it is FamilySearch or Ancestry or
Geni or a personal web page or or or. All are suspect in my book.
Especially if they don't bother to source it. They've copied someone else.
If it says Fred Flintstone was born 1 Jan 100 B.C. in Bedrock, I go to the
Bedrock bi
I agree with Kathy. I've found my relatives attached to a tree of Mellos
in California on Ancestry and my whole family lived in Massachusetts. Just
because someone is born in 1874 doesn't mean it's the same person. With a
lot of Mellos in the Azores, I'm making sure I read the records with the
na
: [AZORES-Genealogy] Source documents
Barb
If you mean data from someone’s family tree…… I usually try to contact the
person who posted it to find out their relationship and the sources they used.
Sounds good, right? But, my experience on Ancestry is that the person I contact
usually just
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