Genealogy Chat

I was just googling one of my early rellies and found myself on Rootsweb. Clicking on the One World Tree hit I found that the person who entered the information has the wrong parents for her husband, and have gone back several gnerations on the mother. Since this is my direct line I have a lot of info on them and it is backed up. Does anyone know if I can contact this person, I couldn't see a way on the site. Thanks.

Maggie I wouldnt bother, personally. In my experience, most people don't like to be told they are wrong - or even worse, don't care. OC

OC I did think of that. If it were me I would want to know, at least to double check. I do know my own info. is correct (certs etc.) so maybe I should just MYOB. LoL.

Maggie I didnt mean MYOB, just me being cynical, after having nearly burst a blood vessel trying to tell someone on One World Tree, that he has all the facts wrong about my family. His reply? I dont have time to check everything. (He now has 54,000 people on his tree - I would like to do something very very nasty to him, involving a red hot poker LOL) OC

OC 54,000 people?? How can you possibly prove 54,000 people? Oh, obviously he doesn't, he certainly wouldn't have time to check them all LOL.

I would try to get the information corrected before it spreads to far. I did contact someone through one world tree who had my great grandmother married to her brother in law and I received a very nice reply plus an invitation to view his website. He has corrected the information on his web site. As he was an American he was working from the IGI which can be misleading. The first thing to do is have a look at rootsweb as a lot of people enter their tree there as well and leave their E. mail address. If not you might find a tree symbol by the name on one worl tree. This might give you the contact details. Sometimes there is a silhouette or a sources symbol which are also woth clicking. If you don't have a one world tree subscription ancestry lets you see matching information if you submit a gedcom so you need to submit a gedcom with the name of the person in it. You can remove it as soon as you have made contact.

In order to put a tree on Ancestry/Rootsweb people have to provide an email address. This should be at top of every page. However it could be obsolete. There is also POST-EM ,with this you can inform the world of the error.

OOh, Crone, that sounds painful! Like you, I also busted a gut trying to help someone who had done hardly any research himself - did loads of census lookups, BMD lookups, etc. Even worse, he wouldn't use e-mail and I had to keep writing to him on snail-mail. As soon as I suggested that he may have misunderstood some information that he had been given yonks ago by an aged relative, he never spoke to me again!! I wouldn't bother to try and correct anyone again if I knew that they had the wrong information. I will just go along on my own sweet way.

Who want's to hear the story of my 4xg-grandmother and the One World Tree??????????????????? lol Didn't think so! Merry

oooh Merry that sounds like a bad one!!

you can change it if you think its wrong by clicking edit as i had to change one as date was wrong and one i added wifes maiden name Jeanette

I had the same, in that case a website was given and when I looked the guy had one of my rellies fathering his brother even though he would have been 7 at the time. I contacted the bloke, pointed it out and then gave him loads of correct info. Not a word of thanks.

Maggie Adding a 'Postem' on the site can work wonders. One had all my information with many wrong items on the tree culled from another source. I just added a postem stating that the whole tree was totally incorrect and proceeded to give reasons asking for the person to remove the information as it stood as it was sending totally wrong signals under my name which had also been given incorrectly. Even if the person did not remove the tree it ensured that the whole world read my complaint. However, in this case the person concerned removed the tree as it stood. Another tree was also incorrect, but this was a different outcome and brought wonderful results. I posted a Postem note, correcting the wrong information and leaving enough further tempting information for someone to reply. Again it told everybody interested in this family that there was other information available. About a year after posting, somebody else researching this same family tree found my message and E Mailed me. Then followed a correspondence with American cousins for 4 years which was so lucrative on both sides as I had all the Irish information going backwards to the 1700's and they had all the American information going forwards from the 1850's to include letters writrten in the 1850's from America to Ireland, one had been written by myGreat Grandfather and another by my Great Great grandfather, which they could not interpret but which I could, We met this year for the first time. So go for it and leave a postem message and see what happens. Janet