Dorethea Beaston: I read a story on a local online newspaper recently, about a local guy that claimed he had traced his ancestry back to various people over 1000 years ago including Boadicea. My reaction - disbelief. Here in England, we have parish records that go back at the earliest to 1538. We have census that go back to 1841. We have state registers that go back to 1837. Most people here can therefore trace their ancestry back safely maybe 100 - 350 years. You may well encounter aristocracy and through heraldric records go back as far as the 11th Century. But for most English ancestors - 100 to 350 years is it.Ok, how accurate? Well for one thing - genealogy is still about tracing surnames NOT genes. People cheat and lie. Every familiy has skeletons in closets....Show more
Douglass Sarley: this brings up a story about my mom, who wanted to search her ancestry. in the days before the internet, there were adverts in women's magazines about research servic! es. she sent in her money and what she got back was a page ripped out of the New York City phone book covering her family name. since her family came from Nebraska/Canada which she already knew from interviewing her grandfather, it is extremely unlikely that anyone in NYC was a relative.mom took great interest on how the internet was helpful for me to fill in some holes in our family line. but great caution does have to be employed, and occasionally i have gone down a garden path unexpectedly. Ancestry.com, a leader in this field is associated with the LDS church genealogy and ever once in a while i see where they make a random insert of a person into somebodies line, probably because of the pressure they are under by the church to demonstrate ancestry. i don't see any point in doing any work before the 1850 census, the first to name all non-slave household members. work before that is totally dependent on other researchers. my tree past 1850 is cut and paste except for ! my great aunts DAR application. i do look for obvious conflict! s but don't vouch for authenticity at that point....Show more
Letitia Bigelow: Online transcriptions with estimated dates.......... are not accurate if estimated are not real records if transcriptions.......Genealogy is about researching REAL RECORDS and documents and the ONLY real records online are the images of the actual record NOTHING else is verified and so it is not genealogy it is copy and paste transcriptions and lets pretend trees......... sorry but you asked.'Accurate' Genealogy is for each event in a persons life you have seen/have copies of at least 2 primary records ( I have at least 3 primary) each event means birth marriage death...so if you take death 3 primary records could be death cert, parish burial record and Will and secondary records could be obituary, tombstone...........the further you get back the harder it is to find the records and prior to 1750 ish it is VERY difficult and without detailed records office research you legitimately can'! t get back prior to that................even parish records are very limited prior to this, it is possible in some circumstances to get back further but generally not before 1550 unless there is a succession of very rich who left wills or a succession of rogues...both unlikely and even then only if there are real records and those records involve connecting family information another thing that is highly unlikely................If you have only evr done copy and paste online then your tree will not be correct and one wrong person in your tree means the whole tree prior is wrong....... wikipedia is nothing to do with research it is not a resourcewww.celtic-casimir.com no cites, IGI informtion a typical lets pretend online tree and the geni is exactly the same............ unfortunately newbies think that online is the way you 'research' and it isn't, the trees showing on those sites are not researched, not cited they are completed by people who want to show off and think gene! alogy is about getting back to silly dates........... to family histori! ans genealogy research is about proving each person in your tree and finding and proving their real ancestors.....so quality not quantity.............If you can PROVE your ancestors, each and every one of them then you have your tree, if you have never looked at real records and have no cited references, then your tree is a colection of unrelated names......................Show more
Brittney Inabnit: Accuracy of genealogy is UP TO YOU. You might copy an "online" posted tree, going back 600 yrs, and never know that it is full of mistakes. You COULD accept family stories that grandpa Jones was born in Texas, without ever going to the effort of getting his death certificate (or other documents) and never KNOW that he actually was born in Alabama, 2 months before his parents migrated to Dallas. As long as you DON'T KNOW what an original record is, and you rely on websites/ other persons for your "research"...there is no way to know what is correct or isn't. If you go to t! he effort of doing things the old fashioned/ hard way, and never accept any outside research, always get solid proof of ancestry, you MIGHT only go back 4 generations..but you will be absolutely sure of what is accurate or isn't. Good genealogy is about solid proof and good research methods. Not how far back you can get. (and the further back you supposedly get, using websites/posted trees, the HIGHER the odds that you are accepting erroneous info). So...HOW MANY original documents have you personally found? it will answer your own question....Show more
Roland Stampley: "How precise is the revealed version of your loved ones relatives tree?" You gotta take all those issues with a grain of salt.... distinctly whilst it is the Male Line. The Jews have been given it ideal - everybody consistently is accustomed to who the mother replaced into. "How some distance returned in historic past does your revealed relatives tree flow?" returned to 724 advert... Charlemagne ;) ~
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