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Hi, i'm new here so not sure if this is the right area.

Anyway, i've started my tree but have found a relative who has over 400 of my relatives! I'd like to add this to my tree. I've been able to copy an ancestor to the clipboard but can't seem to find anywhere to paste them in? I read on one area you click an exisiting relative, then press add, then for example spouse, then there should be somewhere here to post.

Help!

Have you checked to see if this research is correct? are you just going to take their word for it?

Jax is 100% correct mass copying is not the way to go.
Checkout each and every person yourself huge errors are very common. People then copy the error and so on until there is a great tribe of people following the error which they refuse to recant.
Start right.

Hi Matthew and welcome to the boards.

I am not sure if this is what you mean but........

When you have added the details to the clip board, you then need to click the "Save" box that appears at the bottom of the page.

If the "Save" box does not appear at the bottom of the page, you will need to "Zoom Out" to be able to find it.

I hope that makes sense!

Prickles. :-)

Agree with Jax and Rollo. Be very careful with copied trees.

I have known quite skilled reserachers get their own great grandfather wrong.

And I think there is a big desire to be related to somebody famous. So if you have a Warren Hastings who was a coal miner in Penrhiwceibr, is it likely he was related to Warren Hastings, Governor of India. No - but if someone of same surname has a title, it is absolutely amazing how many people think they are related to him.

Tree after tree in Mormonania (LDS) is rubbish - many will get a big shock when they wake up with their family members in heaven.

Ancestry and its related webpages are very bad for people who copy without questioning. Their trees are not worth the paper they are written on, as the saying goes. Can you imagine, I apparently have a brother in law who was born in 1723, according to about 200 trees. :-S

I found someone had a lot of my relatives on their tree including myself and my brothers. I asked them what link there was and they are related loosely to the husband of my cousin's husband. I wasn't at all happy but I don't think they took anyone off even the living rellies. I giggled tho as they have my parents details slightly incorrect - didn't tell them tho!

I was really annoyed about it and only have people on my tree who I have been in touch with and who have offered the info.

Lizx

As I have often said before ' the more people who copy a mistake - the more that mistake becomes CORRECT'.

My older brother has a small tree on here and has my birth year wrong!

My daughter has two trees on here....only with herself, me and her dad in...both have my year of birth either side of what it should be....maybe I shouldn't have insisted I was 21 until I reached 40 :-D

Mine is correct and easily remembered. World Cup Year :-D :-D

Looked at contacting a fellow researcher on Ancestry yesterday, but when I looked at his tree, found he had nealy 1200 people, but had not added one single record.
Needless to say, I left it & carried on in my own sweet way........which may or may not be correct, but at least I have justified everything.

How many trees do you see where the dob is listed as "C" circa or a marriage listed as just the quarter plus year,

Proof that assumptions are being made and entered without verifying details

Roy

According to a couple of Ancestry trees, my sister and I are not our parent's children.

That's what happens when you don't actually know the family history. My Dad always went by his middle name and although his surname was double barrelled, he always used the first bit for legal stuff.

Instead of Albert Stuart Lansbury - White, known as Stuart, our Dad is, apparently, Albert White.

As to what is all over Ancestry as my Grand mother's family............... Well, don't get me started.

Don't put anything on your tree until you have the correct certificate in your hand and if that means wasting fifty pounds on the wrong certificates or travelling to some far flung church or records office, then so be it.

M. :-( :-S