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Thanks JC

ja...x

Oh, here's another good bit.

I just did one of my standard searches for my Cornish parish clerk ancestor, and yes, found him mashed into somebody's tree as a brother of someebody in Tennessee born 1775, claiming my Cornish ancestors behind there as theirs. So I posted my standard "comment" to the tree owner: this is my ancestor, this isn't your ancestor, please remove myf family from your tree.

And hey presto, guess what. The comment doesn't show my username, it shows MY REAL NAME. And there's no way for me to remove it.

This is beyond belief.


edit ... if I reload the page where my comment is, it switches to my username ... it is still beyond belief.

geez!




maybe I should be glad that I can't get as far as doing a search!




sylvia

JC


I just did the same pointing out that as the mother died in childbirth in 1805 after giving birth to twin sons -- she was highly unlikely to have had two daughters 2 and 5 years later

Gave my real name on comments

wish I had not bothered

they only have a small tree 15000 odd so do not think they will bother as they have extended done from the two """"daughters """"

what a farce ---- glad I dont have anything on Ancestry ---I am not even a member ---- yet can trawl all the trees on Mundia --Ancestry will never even let me look at public trees -- Jax looks them up for me normally

JC

Click on your name -- in the comment boc -- click on edit and change name -- and save

Just done it ---- has overwritten my real name

so why can't I trawl the trees on mundia???


is it because I am signing in using my ancestry name and password?

I couldn't do that Irene -- because I'd already done that at Ancestry! My real name shouldn't have survived anywhere, but there it is on every comment I submit.

When I reload the page where the comment is, it switches to my username, and also gives me a "delete" link.

What a pig's ear.

Gave me a fright, too. It said I posted on March 3. I have a large job due on March 4, which I was convinced was Friday, and this is only Wednesday.

... Well, here in Canada it still is, anyhow. ;)


So I've been posting this all over a gazillion trees, with the surname changed to protect the innocent, i.e. me, not these morons:


I am submitting this request to the multiple people with Samuel Sticky in family trees where he doesn't belong. Samuel's name was Sticky. It was not Strickley. He was the parish clerk of St X. His child, my grx3 grandparent, was born in St. X. He had absolutely nothing to do with Tennessee or anywhere else in the US. He most certainly didn't have a child born in Tennessee. Just because Ancestry offers these moronic "hints" -- !!!! Isn't it obvious how moronic this one was?? ;) The St X Stickys are very well documented in parish records in Cornwall, and by numerous descendants. If Richard Strickley of Tennessee is your ancestor, please delete our Cornwall Stickys from this tree, so as not to mislead anyone. Thanks!

lol!



hope it works JC

I have been made out to be the baddy after asking for some details like saying this is your husbands full name and year of birth plus some other reletives names and births to be removed in reply to a 6 year old posting might I add

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/surname_information/lawrenson/thread/362851

ja...x

Your muscle has joined you, jax. ;)

Sylvia, it did with a couple of others a couple of years ago who had the same utterly moronic nonsense in their trees.

You type "Richard Strickley" in the box, for your Richard Strickley born in Tennessee in the latter 1700s and Ancestry says HINT! HINT! have we got a HINT for you! with a little green leaf, just like on the teevee, and it says His father was Samuel Sticky! And oh look, here's his mother! and his grandparents! and all his siblings!

Becauese, you know, Strickley is a variant spelling of Sticky ... and Samuel Sticky actually did have a son named Richard born the same year ... in Cornwall ... where he married and died ...

Morons, the world is just full of them. As I always said about things like "driving lights" (the darks that are supposed to make you safer in daytime that come on automatically because people are too stupid or evil to just turned their dammed headlights on ... so they don't bother turning their headlights on at night either now ...):

Make it so stupid peole can use it, and stupid people *will* use it.

I think things should be just hard enough to use that you have to have half a brain to use them at all. ;)

The only one I've found so far was the guy who took my great-aunt and her husband and added them to his tree


where he had a couple with the same names, born in the same town in England, and both couples emigrated to the same place in the US


Problem was my couple were 100 years younger than his, sogt aunt and uncle ended up having children born 90 years before they were.




He was good enough to remove gr aunt and uncle after I posted a message on his tree :)))



sylvia

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