Barking Up the Wrong Tree

21 December 2015

We Three Kings of Connecticut

Starting the new year off with the traditional crazy "Biblical" tree. Which edition of the Bible do you think this person used?
Happy New Year!

Marcomir Sicambrian Franks Ben Joseph tm
Born: Cologne, Koln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Died: 1950, Old, Sachsen, Germany

Married: Möns, Friesland, Niedersachsen, Germany

MARY Jesus Christ BINT HELI tm
Born: 1966, Maluku, Indonesia
Died: Germany

CHILDREN

Jesus Ben Christ
B: Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
D: Calvary, Grady, Georgia, United States

Jesus Nazareth
D: Yerushalayim, Israel

Clodemiro Penardim Franks tm
B: Old, Sachsen, Germany
D: 1963, Old, Sachsen, Germany

If you have a tree or profile to suggest please send the link to buwtree(at)gmail(dot)com. Thanks!

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21 September 2015

Hof1stC1xrofWof11thGGNofWof3rdC19xr

It may take some of you longer than others but I'm sure all of you can figure out the "code" being used here. I would just like to know WHY? When you have people not related to you on your tree do you really need to add a suffix describing how not related to you they are?

Gov Patrick Henry Hof1stC1xrofWof11thGGNofWof3rdC19xr

PARENTS
John Henr FinLof1stC1xrofWof11thGGNofWof3rdC19xr
Sarah Winston MinLof1stC1xrofWof11thGGNofWof3rdC19xr

SPOUSE
Sarah Shelton WofHof1stC1xrofWof11thGGNofWof3rdC19xr

SPOUSE
Dorothea Spotswood Dandridge 1stC1xrofWof11thGGNofWof3rdC19xr

Thanks to Kristin for the link to this profile ;-)
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14 September 2015

Bottomless Pit 2

MARY HANSON
Birth 09 Aug 1675 in Upton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Death in Upton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

PARENTS
John Hanson (1549-1622)
Janet Raynor (1551- )

SPOUSE & CHILDREN
Walter Stanhope (1572-1661)
✿ Mary Stanhope (1602-1616)
✿ Jane Stanhope (1612-1693)
✿ Walter Stanhope (1612-1646)
✿ Edward Stanhope (1615-1675)
✿ Catherine Stanhope (1618-1618)
✿ Anne Stanhope (1623- )

If you're thinking Mary's birth year is a typo, you're an optimist. A birth year of 1575 would be better than having her parents and most of her children dying before her own birth. It would not, however, explain the births and deaths of Mary's parents, husband and children all occurring in England. Changing her birth year would also not improve the rest of the profile which is after the jump.
Here are just a few highlights (numbers in parenthesis are the number of events that are exact duplicates):

✿ Marriage
810 AD
Uppsala, Sweden
✿ Marriage
1503 7 Oct
Bernbowgale Edinburgh St. James St. Giles Toftis Manys Bernbowgale Manys Toftis Dummanyne Canongate Trinitarian Peblis Crukstoun, Midlothia, Scotland
✿ Christening
1847 31 Jan
Kerry, Ireland
✿ BURIAL
1864 15 Oct
NC
✿ Residence (85)
1911
Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada
✿ Arrival (12)
1913 6 Jun
Detroit, Michigan
✿ Residence (72)
1930
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
✿ SSN issued
California

After the jump: The complete list of events

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

09 September 2015

It Paynes Me

My apologies, this should have been Rule #1.

RULE #12 Pay attention to what you're doing!

Harriet S. Payne

PARENTS
Peter I Coughnet (1793-1856)
Catherine Wohlgemuth (1794-1881)

SPOUSE & CHILDREN
Lafayette Wilmarth (1811-1854)
✿ Harriet Ceilinda "Hattie" Wilmarth (b. 1841)
✿ William P Tiffany (b. 1844)
✿ Katherine (Kate) Tiffany (b. 1844)
✿ Priscilla Tiffany (b. 1845)
✿ Luther Scott Tiffany (b. 1867)

Birth April 30, 1812 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania
Marriage 22 Feb 1842 to Lafayette Wilmarth
Marriage 30 Jun 1846 to Lafayette Wilmarth
Death March 29, 1859 in Jackson Twp, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania
Residence 1880 in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States
Burial in Davenport, Scott, Iowa

After the jump: The records and more

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

23 July 2015

What's In A Name?

A quick post today. This...

Nicholas Lanier Laniere Lane Lanye Lanyer the YOUNGER, MASTER of MUSIC, on FACULTY at OXFORD UNIVERSITY, COURT MUSICIAN to CHARLES I & KING JAMES I, BEN JONSON

...is not a name. It's a biography. Why would someone do this?
I understand the many surname variations. If you search from the profile it may be easier to add all of those to the profile, temporarily anyway. Though I have found that formatting variations as, Lanier/Laniere/Lane/Lanye/Lanyer, yields better results, at least with Ancestry's search engine.
I do not, however, understand the suffix. A suffix should not be a curriculum vitae. And what/who is "BEN JONSON"?

Thanks to Kristin for the link to the profile for Nicholas! ;-) If you have a profile or tree to suggest please email the link to buwtree(at)gmail(dot)com. Thanks!

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Barking has been "deemed offensive to [Ancestry.com's] brand" and is banned from their Facebook pages. In Ancestry's "Community" comments with links to Barking are censored.
Dear Emma, Hannah, Jemima, Mary Jane, and all of her other personalities agree that I use "the banner of 'education' to actually mock, deride and laugh at [Ancestry's] own customers" and I "can make [my] point concerning tree inaccuracies & cock-ups and their effect on our 'hints' system without being downright unpleasant and sarcastic about it."
Allen says, “your cute little blog is a waste of bandwidth at best”
Ann thinks I'm "...copying and pasting mistakes on trees and calling it a blog" and that my readers are "mean-spirited people...who like to have a laugh at the expense of others."
Sue was really offended by the “...continual stream of sarcasm and constant poking fun...What a nasty taste in my mouth your blog left me with. Unpleasant, sarcastic and jeering at people who you obviously see as your intellectual inferiors. Won't be reading that again.”
And finally from Les, "You truly are a horrible woman, pointing out mistakes is one thing but blatantly laughing and taking the p is completely out of order."

Why?

Researching our family histories we are bound to make mistakes. Hopefully we are quick to correct them. Unfortunately some people refuse to read or think before adding information to their family trees. Some trees have been abandoned so the errors are there for eternity. Here we will laugh, mock and shake our heads at the carelessness, stupidity and/or ignorance of those errors.
All examples are taken from trees published online.
I'll also post tips occasionally, though the messed up trees are a great example of what NOT to do.
If you have an online tree to suggest for a future post please send me a link: buwtree(at)gmail(dot)com

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