XPost: alt.genealogy, england.genealogy.misc, free.uk.genealogy   
   From: keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 9/1/2018 11:44 AM, Ruth Wilson wrote:   
   > On 31/08/2018 14:49, Jenny M Benson wrote:   
   >> On 31-Aug-18 12:09 PM, knuttle wrote:   
   >>> Unfortunately this error still appears in some online trees, and   
   >>> their owner seem un interested in correcting their mistake.   
   >>   
   >> I often wonder why so many people publish their trees but seem totally   
   >> uninterested in accuracy or in making contact with possible relatives.   
   >>   
   >> I often contact people along the lines of "I see you have Joe Bloggs   
   >> on your tree, who is my nth cousin n x removed.  Can you tell me what   
   >> your Source is for ... as the information I have found suggests ...  I   
   >> am happy to share with you", but only very rarely do I get any response.   
   >>   
   > I once contacted someone who had linked to my line through one of my   
   > gt-grandmother's brothers as an emigrant to America. As I don't know   
   > what happened to him in later life, it could well be him, although he   
   > then appeared with a middle name (which he could have adopted in   
   > adulthood for any number of reasons).   
   > When I asked the contributor how she "knew" this was the right John   
   > Palmer, she replied that John Palmer was the son of John and Isabella   
   > born in Cumberland ... basically repeating the information in the tree.   
   > No mention of any sources - family bible, marriage certificate,   
   > immigration documentation, etc. Grrrr!   
   > I didn't continue the conversation!   
   > Ruth   
   Don't be so quick to give up on this information.   
      
   In a side family I found a person of the right age with his parents. And   
   then found a person with a different name in the same area, of same age,   
   and a couple of years later married to the my person. I found this   
   couple in later documentation and the spouses age was as the person   
   living with his parents.   
      
   I found that there was an online tree with both my person and a person   
   with first and middle names that I thought was two people. ie John and   
   George vs John George.   
      
   When I asked the owner he said the only documentation was the fact that   
   he knew that in the family the person had been referred to by both   
   names.   I don't know how you documented this type of situation.   
      
   After a frustrating series of emails I gave up, and continued working on   
   my family.  A day or two later I was working on the family I grew up in,   
   and realized I had a similar situation.  All my life, I had heard my   
   uncle referred to by both his first or middle names depending on the   
   situation.   
      
   After much searching I found a family bible that listed the birth   
   information of the siblings in that family.  In that bible his birth   
   records listed both names.  I copies the bible pages for my records and   
   sort of forgave the tree owner that caused me the frustration.   
      
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