tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post7204066672010625347..comments2024-03-21T19:08:05.737-07:00Comments on Genealogy's Star: Click and Claim -- the genealogy video gameJames Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-4861245460145109012010-07-30T08:37:47.824-07:002010-07-30T08:37:47.824-07:00Very much agree!! I have documented (and DNA) pro...Very much agree!! I have documented (and DNA) proof that my 7th G-Grandfather Lt. Brian Hall of Bristol County, MA & RI is NOT related to George Hall, one of the founders of Taunton, MA. The unsourced genealogy "Halls of New England" got it wrong! Yet there are no less than 15 unsourced ancestry.com trees that make this connection... <br /><br />I email the creator whenever I make this mistake - but nothing changes.... I am sure the misinformation will continue to be passed on for the next 300 years. Sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-54771899034170791022010-07-29T09:53:26.490-07:002010-07-29T09:53:26.490-07:00While I agree with your statements, and basically ...While I agree with your statements, and basically agree with IrishEyes, I also use Ancestry.com. One must use it wisely and judiciously. Finding scans of original documents on the site, with the source citations given, I can then obtain my own copies of these original documents. Sure, there are those who copy off my information without regard to sourcing, and I find my information repeated back in the notifications represented by the little leaves. I tend to ignore most of what comes in on those little leaves, because it is of limited usefulness, at best, most of the time. However, access to the images of original documents is a great help to me. Using any source unwisely is possible. It is not the source (in this case, Ancestry.com and other electronic databases) that is at fault, it is in our use of the source (notwithstanding that their advertisements oversimplify and consist largely in hype and hyperbole).Karen Packard Rhodeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07641711434283636830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-86909131465577238122010-07-26T05:00:40.763-07:002010-07-26T05:00:40.763-07:00Hello James, I completely agree with you. 'C...Hello James, I completely agree with you. 'Click and claim' is one of the reasons I strongly dislike, and will never sign up for, sites such as Ancestry.com/.ca. With all of their promotions and adverts they make it appear as though people can find accurate information in the family trees of others. I'm the 'Doubting Thomasina' of online sources; if I don't see the original document, I don't believe it. Cheers! Irisheyes.Éire Historianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04588116386284997687noreply@blogger.com