Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Coming or Going

07 September 2012

Coming or Going

Comments after the jump.

Relationship to NEFERTITI BIRTH DEATH

FATHER Amenhotep III Nubmaatre ABT 1425 BC ABT 1367 BC

MOTHER Gilukhipa ABT 1415 BC
SISTER Mery-Khiba Mery-Amon ABT 1560 BC

SPOUSE Moses Ben Amram 1597 BC ABT 1451 BC

CHILD Merytaten Bas Moses 1743 BC

OCCUPATION "Queen or Egypt" [sic]

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Doing an exact search for "Nefertiti" in Ancestry.com trees brings up 952 results. The creator of this tree can't decide whether they're coming or going. There's no birth date (on this tree) for Nefertiti so I've used the year some historians believe she was born, 1370 BC, for the ages in her timeline. So here's the order of events according to the creator of this tree:

DATE (BC)       AGE    EVENT

1743      -373 Her daughter is born.

1597                  -227    Her spouse and father of her daughter is born.

1560                  -190    Her sister is born.

1451                - 81 Her spouse dies.

1425                  - 55    Her father is born.

1415                  - 45      Her mother is born.

1370       0    She is born.

1367         3    Her father dies.

The only thing this person was able to do correctly was to make sure a person's death occurred after the person had been born. Now if they could just make sure everyone was born after their parents that would be great. A couple thousand profiles might have to be deleted if they did that. Unfortunately that would barely make a dent in this 250,000+ disaster of a tree.

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2 comments:

Michelle TaggartFriday, 07 September, 2012
It just blows my mind how often this happens. I don't understand where the pleasure is in the this type of genealogy. The scary thing is, others will then take this tree without a second glance and dump it into their own database, which just perpetuates the problem.
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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.
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