few times that we're correct but we need somebody to help us
in the sandbox. You don't talk to em. You don't go online. You
that you can mess up the family tree. Remember that all of us
the tree sometimes too for other people and that needs to
mess up the tree sometimes but don't worry because you mess up
be corrected as well. Thanks for watching Family History
great way to do genealogy because you're not gaining
Fanatics. I hope you enjoy this and realize that we're all
actually pretty easy. You don't play with them. You don't play
keep others from messing up your family tree? Well, that's
recognize there's lots of people out there. Not all of
sort of like all of us. We may start out. We may be gung ho
but we're probably naive. We may be stubborn and there's a
any clue what he was doing and now he spent another 20 years
don't talk to anybody else. Unfortunately, that's not a
other information from other people that they may have. So,
another. I like what Tom Jones said once. He says that when he
probably have messed up our family tree in some way or
million people working on that entire family tree plus there's
another 800 million duplicates that are out there. Basically,
problems that need to be solved and so there's a lot of ways
person you're working on persevere and keep making those
them are at the same level that you may be at. They're going to
changes back keep documenting it be polite you don't have to
and forth with changes as they're being stubborn but in
going to have the time to do this for every single person
the first 15 years of his work in genealogy, he didn't have
to recognize when we're messing up the family tree. How can you
correcting all the mistakes that he used to make. That's
show how the incorrect information is they're not
all the time if you care about this and if you care about that
realize that FamilySearch Family Tree, there's about $300
million in unique individuals and there's only about 3
be rude and let them continue to be their own stubborn selves
needs to be. So, the Third reason why people may be
that show the information that you have that's correct and
them what you need to do is one you need to make sure that your
you're changing what you're changing put sources in there
changes are documented well you need to expressly state why
necessarily going to agree with you and you may have to go back
the end they're going to get bored because they're not
that you present to them and realize, oh, that does make
think it's correct. Usually, if they're just naive and they
compare that with other sources that may already be in there to
that with you, you can then share back. Well, I have X, Y,
messing up your tree is that they're stubborn. They're right
stubborn people it's a little more difficult to work with
and you're wrong no matter if they're right or wrong with
train them. You gotta teach them. You gotta be patient with
more sense and allow you to change it back to where it
don't know any better, they might see the other information
that from. What you'll find is is they may not have any
and Z that show this other information and this is why I
sources or they may have something and if they share
them and so, when they change something, ask them, hey, why
did you change that? What sources were you that you found
the best way to deal with these types of people is you gotta
given a bunch of stuff from some other ancestor of theirs
what you have on your tree so you have to be wrong. They
don't know any better. They just know what they have. Now,
and they think it has to be right and it's different from
it and so in that case, you shouldn't get upset. You should
they're really not messing up your tree. They're correcting
they're naive. They don't know any better. Maybe they've been
two reasons. They might be messing up their tree because
people messing up your tree. So, let's talk about the other
First off, they maybe right and you maybe wrong in which case
welcome the help that they're giving you but that's probably
not what you were thinking about when you thought of
messing up your tree?
Now, I like to start with why are they messing up your tree
in the first place? Well, there's probably three reasons. want to answer the question, what do you do when others are
Hi, this is Andy Lee with Family History Fanatics and I
playing in the same sandbox so let's be nice to each other.