Ms Happy's Complainin'
Karen’s Genealogy Blog # (I have no idea)
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.