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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to know what paperwork the person claiming to trace family back to 1100 has. That made me laugh so hard.

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Glad I gave you a good laugh. Like I said, my mom is into that stuff. She got it from ancestry.com. There’s William FitzGerald born 1098 in Berkshire England Born 1098, his parents Geraldus DeWindsor born 1070 Berkshire England and Neat Verch Rhys born 1073 Llandyfeisont Wales. I have no clue where the records came from.

Latest it goes back is Trancred DeHauteville born 1045 in Normandy France. I have no clue if these are correct, but it’s what ancestry says. I’m 4th generation born in DC as well. [/quote]

So in other words you know nothing. I cannot tell you how much crap there is out on ancestry.com family trees. You have to check as there are standards to abide by and that’s assuming the info in documentation is all legit in the first place. People always want to believe that ancestor x with the same name x are one and the same. SMH. Until you have done your work, you have nothing.

I’d love to hear about families that have documentation on old scrolls — India, I think. You can visit the keepers and add your name when you visit.[/quote]

That's coming across a little mean-spirited, PP. PP's mom did some research with the tools available to her for fun, and PP thinks it's kind of fun and admits that they have no idea if it's all correct. No need to criticize how inadequate their research has been.

And anyways, by your standards ("and that's assuming the info in documentation is all legit in the first place"), then your own documentation is worthless, too. No one knows anything![/quote]

I’m the PP and you are right. No one knows for sure based on paper. And the so-called “meaness” I as intended. I cannot tell you have much misinformation is out on sites like Ancsstry.com. I’ve done family research for about 25 years.[b] So many people “copy and paste” trees without checking the sources propating the errors all over the Internet[/b] (so many sites like myheritage, take free info from elsewhere like ancestry.com and geni.com). I’ve sat in archives and family history centers listening to professionals frustrated by people who have changed or added errors to the pros public trees.

It is a fun hobby for some, but it can be frustrating dealing with people of widely varying standards of research.[/quote]

Yes, I agree that there are some very amateurish researchers on Ancestry.com . [/quote]

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