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With all this family tree malarkey but not this site. I joined another site a few years ago and suddenly it’s all gone haywire, too much wrong information for me to correct, it makes me want to demolish my tree there and start again grr.

ZZzzz don't give up. I hit many a brick wall over the years, went down the wrong path too a few times.
I took a break from it for a few weeks, months and then came back to it and was able to sort out my mistakes without starting all over.

Hope you manage to sort it out.
Good luck

Florence in the hebrides

I did that on Ancestry ZZzzz. I started from scratch and this time split it into 4 trees one for each branch starting from me and OH. It is now split into OH's Maternal line and his Paternal line and same for mine. I also kept my original one to refer to but it is huge as we both come from complicated families

How are you today, better I hope

Thank you both for your encouragement, I’m just a bit disheartened at the moment, but I’ll get over it..... and thank you I am better now. :-)

That's good ZZzzz. I do find the split tree easier to handle as it was getting very complicated. :-D

I keep my trees off line. I have two trees for OH and three for me. I find them more manageable that way.

I should have said that it is the site that has put up the wrong information which in turn has come from another site and someone has put wrong information on there aaagggggg.

Oh gawd ZZzzz it sounds a right pickle :-0.

LG, that isn’t even close to what I said lol.

ZZzzz, I've found that a lot - totally wrong information - particularly with American sites.
I've come to a standstill with my Suffolk side, but was lucky with my Cornish side, as parish records are online - and free!
However, I try to confirm information I've found, so type in the name -and some is just amazingly wrong - especially on trees created by Americans :-S

:-D :-D :-D I would have used my best LUNDEN as I call it :-D :-D

LG, LUNDEN ???

...creeps on
Luddite here!
With one side of my tree (the Cornish side) I've put details of individuals in a folder, going backwards, then I've put the tree on a sheet of lining paper!
However, I managed to miss out one generation.
I know why - how the heck did 3 generations of 'Jory' males manage to marry 3 'Polkinghorne' females - in succession!
I need to research how closely they were related, but my 'Ooohh' compass keeps telling me I may not want to know!

Maggie they sound like OH's Evans and Tilstons :-D :-D :-D. Very confusing ;-)

My gran's aunt, from Suffolk summed up village life in an interview with 'Framlingham Weekly News' in 1935, on her 100th birthday. Here's part of it - beware written in Suffolk dialect! :

"Then in my young days, it wor rare fur the children tew gew away, but now, there’s no accounting wher they’ll be as sune as they leave schule. We used tew marry one another until the whool village wur divided atween two or three families, But thet aint accounted roight tew-day; but, there, I never see’d anything amiss in thet; though I must say as how most villages had their idiots. But I hev heerd as how madness hasn’t been whooly stamped out , enen in London!"

Some of the trees on ancestry have me born of a "relationship" between my mother and my 10 year old brother :-0 :-( ................ father's name disappeared due to one cousin treemaker who didn't know his own family. The information was then copied.

I really can't be bothered any more.

If no-one can spot the age difference from the birth years given, and still refuse to make corrections, then b****r them!

I felt like I couldn’t be bothered, still a bit fed up, but I’ve been on myheritage site for a few years so I’ve done a DNA test with them too, see what wrong information I get from them. :-\

I know not everyone agrees, but I think MH is better for European matches than Ancestry.

Well I’ve just posted my DNA with track reference number, so now I just have to wait.

Do let us know how you get on, ZZzzz