Genealogy Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

Advice about LDS

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Val

Val Report 22 Feb 2005 11:44

Thanks I will go and see who submitted the tree on the site

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 21 Feb 2005 23:30

Val If you cant go forwards with the information, then you will have to go backwards from what you know to be correct. I dont know how you would check events in Sweden - does the entry on LDS give a submitters name? If so, you could try to contact them through the LDS site although be warned, many of the submitters have died! I am rather jaundiced about the Ancestral Files on there. My family has been submitted as going back to the year 813, its total and utter make believe, has a two hundred year gap in it. I tried to contact the submitter, who, incidentally has 45,000 names in their tree - no reply. Good luck anyway. Marjorie

krimpers

krimpers Report 21 Feb 2005 23:13

val some of the info is so incorrect you should back it up with other info you just need to look at princess diana's death that they have on there some say she died in france others have windsor ,england!!!!!

Val

Val Report 21 Feb 2005 22:45

I am nudging this

Val

Val Report 21 Feb 2005 21:52

I should have said I can't look on the british sites as the people are Swedish so I am not sure how I work forward from the names of the family that is on there or if they are correct as I have been having problems finding out as when I was a kid told one thing about family and my uncle told me it was someone else but when I looked at the LDS site the person is related to the person I was told about

Twinkle

Twinkle Report 21 Feb 2005 18:47

Go through it with a fine-tooth comb. If they've missed the obvious - like women giving birth aged 90 - then the chances are it's tosh. Even if there don't appear to be any silly mistakes, consider it as a guide rather than absolute truth.

Unknown

Unknown Report 21 Feb 2005 17:59

Val Ancestral files are submitted by individuals. Nobody checks them. I have found lots of errors, including someone who apparently got married about 20 years before he was born. There are a lot of people who just grabbed as many names as possible and fitted them together, not because they wanted to do their family tree, but because they wanted their family to be members of the Mormon church and put in anyone likely. The IGI info on www.familysearch.org is more reliable as it is usually taken from parish register transcripts. But as with all info, you need to check the original source wherever possible. nell

Val

Val Report 21 Feb 2005 17:55

I was looking up some one I believe I am supposed to be related to and I was looking at the pedigree files I was just wondering how correct are they