General Chat

I have noticed that a lot on people seem to be adding a lot of name to their tree,quite a few of my contact.. When i go back to look at there tree they have a lot of wrong connecting people. Some of my family who I knew as a child and into my teens are wrong on their trees. I have tried to tell them , I have documentary evidence of my facts ie family papers. But they take no notice. One chaps had a whole section that did not make sense, when I pointed this out, he said he had downloaded them from some one else tree. He had about 3000 names on his tree and I wonder if they are all misleading. It seems that a lot of people are only interested in how many names they have on there tree,and do not care about anything else. Has anyone else found this as well? Sheila

This crops up from time to time, Sheila, and of course, living people should not be included without their consent. The 'numbers' thing can be misleading - I have 6000 in my off-gr tree but that's because I have listed all the 'marrieds' and their families. They're all related in some way and use a small selection of names so the only way to identify who's who is to include the whole lot! I rarely take info from others but I regularly pass on to others - my relatives are not mine wholly and solely.