Genealogy Chat

My grandfather has been married five times on three continents in ancestry and has goodness knows how many children...I could wish he led such a colourful life.

I second that. Check anything you are told with the original records. Even, I would say, to checking again your own research. I am off to do some research at source in Wales so have been having a good review of my family tree and found two mistakes that I had made a couple of years ago, only a misread name in a census in one case, and a wrong second name in the other, but it made a world of difference as that name gave me a clue to the parents. Check, check and check again.

A word of advice to those who might share trees
online e.g. Ancestry etc.Be aware that those Tree's online may have been copied from elsewhere and the information therein not necessarily checked out or taken from records.Having seen a tree online with my father's birth,marriage etc all correct, it shows his death date incorrect; in fact, thank God he is still very much alive. Another Tree has another family member marrying a grandchild, a mistake made by family members from one generation to the next having the same Christian names and the researcher entered details they "Thought" was right without checking further. Anyone researching
this same line can pick up on this information which is online for all to share. It is misleading and will put them, as well as the tree submitter upon a false family trail. Another online Tree showed an ancestor born aboard ship en route to Canada. It may make interesting family history reading but my checks at the local records office shows that person been baptised here in a local church a few months before the family emigrated.
Check records where possible and be aware when sharing from other trees.