When searching over the Internet, I have come across so many web sites that blatantly give out the "WRONG" information and NO PROOF for their information. The persons out there portraying this information Do NOT indicate whether their information is speculative or proven with verifiable documentation. This is very frustrating since many other people "May" take this information and continue "Publishing" the same errors over and over again. I do wish that people would state whether their family information is proven or not and get rid of the many errors that are "Circling" on the Internet. One example of this is that so many people have William Strickland as married to "A Mary Whitehead". I have proven that this is FALSE with documentation from the Quaker Church Records in North Carolina which states that Mary Whitehead married someone else (Benjamin Denson). Anyone who has listed William Strickland with a wife named Mary Whitehead should Correct their information immediately as William Strickland Did NOT marry Mary Whitehead!!
This William Strickland was also reported to have been the son of William and Olive (?Pittman), Again this is NOT True! This William Strickland, who Did marry Martha Brown (proven), was the son of Mathew Strickland, Jr and wife Ann Braswell (proven). This William Strickland (and Martha Brown) lived in the Tarr River, Edgecombe County area of North Carolina.
One has to check census and other forms, etc and check marriages of the state and county themselves to see how reliable the information is. but if they keep publishing it, that makes it worse.
ReplyDeleteI assume you wrote to those people.
I have found a few people who through process of checking and working on tree have added extra wives to a man. simply because they are not sure which one it is??!!.
I now ignore it, tell them what I know and move on, because I have tons of people listed in my trees who are not related to me.
I just use the save to my tree feature to view their trees. ancestor.com does the hunting work for me. Rather than delete it,cause I want to come back to it. It sits there and others see it, and hopefully do not assume they relate. Not so good, but they are free to contact me, and don't.