Has anyone else had this experience on ancestry.com?

I have a family tree online. When you bring up your, tree ancestry has  
links to "hints" for information that might apply to a person in the  
tree. This last time I found the "hints" were actually my ancestors  
that someone else had put in their tree. They didn't appear to be  
linked from my tree but the information was exactly as I have it.

There is no way my ancestors can be part of this family (unless they  
are very distant cousins, of course). In fact, the way they are  
presented, some of the parents started having their family of six  
children when the mother was in her 40s and the father much older.  
It's so scrambled that I think the person even linked these same  
people to a previous generation.

I'm tempted to just ignore the whole thing. But I wonder if I should  
contact the maintainer of that tree to see if they can verify the  
relationships?

I'm thinking that people may see these "hints" and just automatically  
accept them. I know that some of the "hints" that have been presented  
to me are not even from the same island and even a similar name from  
the mainland. I must also add that the "hints" have provided useful in  
finding the people in census and other documents.

Mary Bordi



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