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they're just stubborn and when it comes to stubborn people,
characters that it's highly suspect they even existed.
kind of frustrating which is going to be my next tip but for
try to negotiate? Do you have strategies I haven't covered?
Write all of that in the comment section below. If you
the only thing you can do with them is number one, write up
and attach that to Ancestry. com. You can Write it up the
That's my two cents on how do you handle inaccurate
you to do a lot on this channel and you can also write up the
like I said, Some people have their tree where they are
conclusions that you have and correct information and create
a blog post. You can write your family histories which I tell
there everywhere you possibly can think to leave that
with their tree they can do whatever they want I know it's
cares that you want to be accurate why are you messing
renegotiate what's going on on our tree then not everybody
can be changed their mind. Maybe they actually have
perfect that before you go accepting all of that and new
individual tree? They're right and nobody else can tell you
information. Maybe even put it into a genealogical society
you know what the problem with people having their own
write up your conclusion and make sure it's getting out
information you didn't know about. It's happened and maybe
information and place it on a lot of other online trees. Just
they go back to North Carolina okay. Um okay. Did your brain
what you believe to be accurate and you can create a document
that they're wrong but if you give us me others quality
now reach out to people. Maybe the person with the tree errors
Pennsylvania. Okay, now that's possible. That's possible but
information about the family that's going every which way
anywhere. They stayed in North Carolina. So, does not belong
different. Now, there are some people who don't like to admit
information that tells us that we are wrong we'll happily
So, my second tip is that what do you do in Ancestry? Well, in
but loose that you double check before you accept. Fair enough.
to this family. It's a junk tree and oh by the way, it has
can emphasize to you even though my my situation isn't
no sources. Makes it even more of a junk tree. So, I hope I
another wife, Mary Lenoir. I'm not sure how you say that but
hurt yet? Now, it's possible. This could be the family but
up to Pennsylvania okay well maybe they sold the property
to question this tree. So, they had to daughter in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania to have a baby? Where were they moving? But
Caldwell County in 1799 and then we have a daughter in
either, Nathaniel is obigamus. Or Nancy is not the mother of
Ancestry, we all have private trees. These are my tree and
We scroll down to 1780 and then things are going to start
Nancy Gordon. They really are from they moved from Virginia
to Wild County, North Carolina and that's it. They didn't go
but in five years later they have a baby Illinois and then
that she's superwoman. She has a son in South Carolina and a
to Illinois. They didn't go to Pennsylvania. They didn't go
in 1800, they're also in Wilkes County. Why did they go up to
they have a residence in North Carolina but then they go back
for this time period because what happened is Nathaniel
then why did they come back? I don't know. I'm really starting
information that are on Ancestry. com trees. I want to
Pennsylvania and moved to Ohio but if this is to be accurate
hear from you. What do you do? Do you get frustrated? Do you
the more I look into Nathaniel, Charles Gordon who married
but I'm really concerned about the fact that in 1784 Nancy on
because back there. Okay, so that's still looking oh oh okay
brain. Um and now were not in Wilkes County anymore. We're in
Carolina and you know some 20 something years later she dies
descendants of Thor and Odin and other Greek mythology
moved from Virginia to North Carolina and he's selling
looking a little weird. Um so the first thing we've got this
Charles. I'm really getting confused. This is hurting my
okay? So they started in Pennsylvania and then he died
okay. So now, we haven't gotten to Charles who was born in
They're all from Wilkes County, Wilkes County, Wilkes County,
daughter in North Carolina in the same year. Not sure how
that works. Now in 1790 Wilkes County. Um Nathaniel has
seeing Pennsylvania or Illinois or Ohio, okay? So, North
going to start looking at the timeline of Nathaniel Gordon
a previous marriage. Not too bad, too many red flags.
Lancaster County property, this resident. That isn't too odd
could have been an illegitimate child or he could be a son from
information, you just gotta leave it alone because again,
coming back. I'm starting to get curious. So now we're
Carolina everything's looking good with this North Carolina.
gets married. Now this is still okay. Um now Thomas's birth
in North Carolina. That's fitting in. I'm still not
could be inapproximate. He was born about 1770 given the time
newsletter. My last tip is, you know, sometimes that inaccurate
and his wife Nancy. So in 1770 he has a son and in 1777 he
in Pennsylvania. Oh oh Nathaniel's wife Nancy Gordon
that keeps perpetuating and propagating and spawning has a
period. Um it might not have been an illegitimate child. It
way, sometimes there's Lieutenant Nathaniel Charles
she was born in Virginia okay okay Nathaniel and his wife
Nancy are from the same place and Nathaniel dies in North
born Virginia and he died in North Carolina. I'm not seeing
and then Okay. And they also made it over to Illinois before
in Georgia still in the realm of possibilities but how the
heck did they get up to Pennsylvania to have a kiddo
Not too crazy. The time period's 18001, 1875 at 1873.
with this online tree. You see, Charles in this online tree
in Illinois. It's possible but that's so yeast of the problems
That looks good. But but in 18oh six, his sister was born
the case of Charles Gordon. Notice where Charles Gordon is
anything new to your family tree. I'm going to give you a
very clear example of something that happens in my family tree.
even smaller errors. So always double check before you add
will soon find that people in their online tree, an Ancestry
Again and again and again on Ancestry particularly. This is
Priam of Troy. Mhm. Fictional characters guys. There's no
we can make egregious errors like that there are going to be
and some websites. They think they're related to Thor and
evidence that you're related to any of these individuals. So if
Before we get started, there's a lot of junk on a lot of trees
Gordon Junior connected to him and notice where Nathaniel was
born. He's born in Pennsylvania. And died in Ohio.
father named Nathaniel Charles Gordon Junior. Oh and by the
working with Ancestry's online member trees is to double check
all of that information before you add it to your tree. You
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