Barb, I haven't had a lot of opportunity until recently to find online family trees. Not many seem to be working on similar lines. But, recently more of my lines are appearing in Ancestry Family Trees.
Some of the work is just awful. I'm amazed at how little critical thinking and analysis some people use when constructing their trees. I found my great grandfather listed by one researcher with the wrong surname and apparently a bigamist. They had him with wife and children in MA at the same time he was escaping Hawaii for California because he had leprosy. My grandfather's cousin, Maria (Pacheco) Iida, who spent her entire life on Kauai, is attached to a family in Mexico by one researcher. In this case, the person had documents. However, they've drawn the wrong conclusions. One Portuguese Maria Pacheco is not the same as another Mexican one. (This is why I finally put my tree online. It's at WikiTree.) I use online family trees as a guidelines for further research unless I know the researcher. Even still, I verify the detail with my own research. If they've given sources, I check them. Side note...my wish list item would be that online family tree programs have a feature that warns people when what they are about to input is in conflict. Something like "Are you really sure Maria had two marriages at the same time?" ;) On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 10:28:25 AM UTC-7, Barb Davis wrote: > > 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 > a copy of the document where possible so it makes me question when records > are not done the same. Opinions? > > Barb Davis > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
