Hi Pat, I was just reiterating what others have said. If you unlink people/a line because the link is disproved, it helps to add a note on your family member from which they've been unlinked so that everyone knows that another line was pursued and it was wrong. If only you know this, then the note can be private just for your benefit unless it's an error that others are likely to make. However, if it's an ancestry that is widely known in the family, then anyone seeing this part of your work needs to know why you've discarded it.
There'd be uproar in my family if I contradicted the work my aunt had done by removing a line. It's bad enough when I correct a date or place despite the fact that I clearly have better sources than were available to her. Fortunately for me she concentrated on one branch only and was stunned when I took up research seriously in the 1990's and started following all lines. How times have changed from the pencil and paper days. Cathy > Pat Hickin <mailto:[email protected]> > Tuesday, 20 May 2014 11:31 AM > Cathy, > > I'm not sure what you mean by this: > "to include a note /_on your _/_/proved ancesto/r_." Can you be a bit > more explicit? > > Pat > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Pat Hickin <mailto:[email protected]> > Tuesday, 20 May 2014 4:36 AM > Thanks, Paula, > > In both cases, these are "royal" lines and both are disproved by DNA > evidence as well as by more traditional research. In one case there > was only oral tradition (from my father, his father, etc.) for the > descent and I never had a real link. In the other case no one ever > found any documentation to support the link & it has been firmly > disproved by DNA testing. > > Pat > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
