Genealogy Chat

I get confused-not difficult :-(

Hot Matches on here (3 weeks ago) brought up someone with ME and my brother in their tree.

I contacted them to point out that we were both very much alive (albeit ancient !) and what was the connection.

He replied " oh someone in my mothers line" and gave me two names.

I traced back and discovered that our common ancester was a 3xgt grandfather (1768-1842) who had 12 children.

I descend from a son through the male line,he from a daughter.

How can he claim me as an ANCESTOR or even a relation ?

I know I can get GR to remove me but in truth he could have got it from FreeBMD !!

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If this person is in the same generation as you, then he is your 4th cousin.
I too was horrified to find myself in someone elses tree.
I explained to the owner that I preferred my privacy and was concerned about my personal security. He obliged and has since removed details of all living people from his tree.
He admitted that the personal security issues of living people hadn't occurred to him.

Elizabeth
He should not have added you, or any other living person without your permission and I would certainly ask him to remove yo, and ask GR's help if he doesn't do that.

I am interested in any blood line which has a common ancestor and would probably contact someone to help fill in the missing generation details, but certainly wouldn't add them to an online tree.

Gwyn

I am not sure if Gr altered their policy on this but a few years ago, when I found myself on a search, the tree owner had already hidden living people.
It seems that even although they were hidden within the tree, they were still found a search.
To get over this obstacle, I overtype names with NOT AVAILABLE, and do not include birth/death or marriage info.
This relates to myself, my husband and our parents only, as we are all required to be on the tree for linking the two families together.

I have never included our siblings or our children in any tree.
Anne

I have been very lucky as my relatives are from London and I have managed to download a lot of batptisms and marriages from Ancestry.

On my mother's side her later relatives came from a small village in Norfolk and on IGI they have photocopied Parish Records for BMD's.

It means looking through the whole book which can be a bit tiring but have found so much information. Unfortunately one of my ancestors born in the early 1800 had a very common Christian and Surname and on each Census they mention a different village in Suffolk (then moved to Norfolk) so I am still not sure they are the correct parents for the next generation and really don't know how to check it more throughly.

I have had two things like this with wrong details added or extra details to those needed.. One was (and may still be) on a large one name study where it had my Great Grandfather dying young when he lived into old age. I contacted the person in control of the study and got no response at all. Not my problem!!

The other was Somebody added the whole of my tree including my OH's tree to his tree (This was from Genes) despite me asking him to only take those names applicable to him. His reply was that the aim of sharing trees was to create one world wide tree and he refused to remove any names from his tree. I don't open my tree any more although am only too pleased to share applicable details and help others with research.

Buying certs is important?
Evidently not for some......
I have just received an email from a contact ,to be told quite impolitely, that I have many sons born to a family of brothers, all mixed up.
I am told that I identified the wrong son from a family, and married him off to the wrong woman.
The contact says that she has ALL the correct info "straight on paper", and can put me right!
What does that mean?
I never add anything to a tree that I cannot prove, and I hold EVERY marriage and/ or death certificate for these men.
I obtained the correct documents as my evidence.
I wonder where she got hers?

Ask her to put you straight, and await results.