Making corrections

I have been going along thinking that I vetted all the 2079 People I put on my family tree, but then when I tried to upload a Gedcom file onto the Wiki web site werelate.org and they came back with four pages of what they saw as errors or warnings. So I guess I didn't do as good a job as I thought . Now a lot of the error were children being born before marriage, which were not  errors just  some of my ancestors having a bit of fun. The error list also had made the calibration that women have their children between the ages of 18 and 45 years old,  any born too early or too late maybe an error. Others were events happening after death, but the event listed were where parents names were put on marriages of their children after their deaths.

          The lesson learned is that no matter how careful you think you have been its a good idea to run correction test once in a while. A lot of the trouble has been automatic records from ancestry.com had some errors that I didn't catch and adding information from other peoples research that had errors. So the fix is going slow analyzing the incoming data.

Who do you think you are? Rich

Who do you think you are? The television series on NBC  by Ancestry.com is interesting showing what you could do with your genealogy if you only had lots of money to spend on experts to do all the work for you. even if you do manage to go to some of these places like old churches the chance that you will find someone to point out where to find the  records are kind of small. Then would they  let you  handle old fragile records with your bare hands,  I don't think so! they only tell the most interesting stories, I get that they need to keep their audience watching, but  give could give a little explanations of  the process of finding the information and making sure it is correct.

          I personally have just a small limited income to spend on the  genealogy  of my family so the internet is my best friend and I do like ancestry.com were I spend over  three hundred dollar a year even if it is really a little out of my range, I find it does gives the best information on both the USA and the UK plus they have the best on line family tree, even if it does need improvements like on their PDF stories that have to be downloaded to read. They  also tend to group information together  like all of a certain years census are all lumped in one big list, where I would rather range them by family, 1880 US Census for John Doe and family rather than 1880 United States Federal Census which makes it hard to find a census for a certain family. I still think ancestry.com is worth it, but I am contently looking at other  genealogy web sites.