Ancestry - grrrr
ANCESTRY, etc. --- GRRRR
Yep, Miss Happy is complaining! In a bad mood here. Perhaps, it is just that I’m 70 years old and
not what I once was but others have complained, as well. I used to be able to find almost anything on
Ancestry with ease. Well, not
anymore. Example: since they purchased
findagrave if you ask for just a death thinking you’ll get a death record as it
used to do now you get all kinds of other things and the death records are
usually last now so instead of getting what you asked for – a death record per
a death query, now you get findagrave entries galore before you get down to the
real thing requested. All the searches
just bring up too much and I get so frustrated when I click that I only want
items from Montgomery County, Indiana and I get things from Ireland or
California. Grrrrrr.
I have a fairly bare Tree on Ancestry as I am a firm
believer that genealogy should be free.
They charge (and other sites not just Ancestry) quite a fortune in my
opinion to share other people’s work.
The hints are nice that you receive but I can’t imagine how many per day
one would get if there was a big batch of “family” as I get a lot with so few
people on my tree. Plus it really
frustrates me I get a hint from something I put up that someone else has
stolen. They need to put sources –
shared from ___ type thing.
Plus, the trees are awful sometimes. So many blatant mistakes. Saw one the other day with a mother born six
years after her son. Go figure! One was a father of a child two years after
his death. Some are hilarious
actually. People just take them from
someone else and don’t even check things out.
Slip-slop genealogy. Or, junky
genealogy – my two ways of describing them.
Another thing that bothers me in the genealogical world is
that so few people use the GenWeb anymore.
There are some amazing sites, such as the Montgomery County and Parke
County ones – Fountain coming up on them.
A new Genwebber is working on Madison County and it is getting great, as
well. Check ‘em out, people –
ingenweb.org
Don’t get me wrong, there are some Genweb pages that aren’t
worth the bother, but keep in mind, it is all volunteer and best part about it
– it’s all free! Plus, I couldn’t
research at this point without findagrave and Ancestry; but it just aggravates
me that there is such horrid mistakes in both places and that Ancestry is too
hard to research on anymore (and I’m a professional, can’t imagine a beginner
tackling it). So, guess I’d just say
don’t put things up if you’ve not double and triple checked ‘em ! And good look on Ancestry and the like.