Barking Up the Wrong Tree

09 November 2012

One Wrong Move

Comments after the jump.

TREE #1
CHARLES WIGGINS FOSTER
B: 28 Nov 1883 in St. Louis, MO
Parents
William Livingston Foster, B: 1850
Mary M Wiggins (1856-????)
Spouse
Married in 1919 to Annie B. [Last name unknown] (1899-????)

TREE #2
CHARLES WIGGINS FOSTER
B: 28 Nov 1883 in St. Louis, MO
D: 29 Sep 1962 in Bexar, TX
Parents
Turner Saunders Foster, Jr. (1849-1886)
Mary Wiggins (1858-1886)
Spouses
Married in 1918 to Anne Belle Bradley (1898-1989)
Married to Mollie Pearl Foster (1890-????)

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

05 November 2012

My Two Dads

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TOKANNE MARY CROW
Birth: 1789 in Kaposia, Minnesota
Marriage: 12 Jun 1829 in Prairie Du Chien, Illinois to Joseph Renville
Marriage: 12 Jun 1829 in Prairie Du Chien, Illinois to Joseph Renville
Death: 16 Feb 1840 in Lac qui Parle, Lac qui Parle, Minnesota

PARENTS
Little Crow Corbeau (1758-1830)
Sister Wakoyantanke (1720-????)

SPOUSES AND CHILDREN

Joseph Renville (1804-1856)
Francois Joseph Renville, B: 1807
Antoine Renville, B: 1810
Angelique Renville, B: 1815
Michael Renville, B: 1822
Rosalie Renville, B: 1823
Gabriel Renville, B: 1825
Marguerite Hail RENVILLE, B: 1825
John Baptiste Renville, B: 1831

Joseph Renville (1779-1846)
Francois Joseph Renville, B: 1807
Antoine Renville, B: 1810
Angelique Renville, B: 1815
Michael Renville, B: 1822
Rosalie Renville, B: 1823
Mary Madeleine Renville, B: 1824
Gabriel Renville, B: 1825
Marguerite Hail RENVILLE, B: 1825
Mary Madeleine RENVILLE, B: 1825
John Baptiste Renville, B: 1831

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

02 November 2012

Thunder and Lightning

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BIG THUNDER
B: 1610, Delaware
D: 1846, Maine

PARENTS
Cetanwakanmani (1763-1825)
Indian Maidan (1595-????)

SPOUSES & CHILDREN

Wife Three (1605-????)
Her Black Tasinasapawin (????-1890)
Little Dog Sunkacistinna (????-1862)
Moses Wakeman (????-1896)
Passing Daylight Anpahiyaye (????-1896)
Sunkacistinna Little Dog (????-1862)
Tasinasapawin Her Shawl (????-1890)
Bright Lightning (1635-1703)
Bright Lightning (1635-1703)
Sarah Little Fawn (1740-1810)
Miniyue (1760-1840)
Miniyue Rainville (1760-1840)
Little Crow Taoyateduta His Nation (1811-????)

Wikusauwin (????-1890)
Her Black Tasinasapawin (????-1890)
Little Dog (????-1870)
Little Dog Sunkacistinna (????-1862)
Moses Wakeman (????-1896)
Passing Daylight Anpahiyaye (????-1896)
Sunkacistinna Little Dog (????-1862)
Tasinasapawin Her Shawl (????-1890)
Bright Lightning (1635-1703)
Bright Lightning (1635-1703)
Sarah Little Fawn (1740-1810)
Sarah Little Fawn (1740-1810)
White Spider Unktomiska (1831-1902)

Unknown Spouse
Little Crow Taoyateduta His Nation (1811-????)

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

29 October 2012

That Explains Everything!

I've spent the last couple of days combing through
lines of HTML on all of my past blog posts.
Hating Blogger at the moment but glad I had the
opportunity to view my blog on a different browser
(IE9, I'm on Firefox)
and find out it did not look the way I wanted.
So that's my excuse for not having a crazy tree today.
Instead enjoy a few funnies!
This one explains every crazy tree we've ever seen:

I didn't create the graphic but it's too funny to ignore because of poor spelling.
UPDATE: The spelling is correct except in the US.
Why do we have to complicate things? :-P

ⓑⓐⓡⓚⓘⓝⓖ ⓤⓟ ⓣⓗⓔ ⓦⓡⓞⓝⓖ ⓣⓡⓔⓔ

The images after the jump are from the

Twisted Twigs on Gnarled Branches page

on Facebook. If you're on Facebook check it out.

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26 October 2012

Apologies and Bigamy

This week I found out that all the work I do to format the green boxes is for naught. Anyone not viewing the blog in Firefox is probably seeing a mess. Sorry! I'll try to keep the attempts to create columns to a minimum from now on. Now back to our regularly scheduled post.
Comments after the jump.

JAMES MADISON ROBERTS
(1834-1915)

MARRIAGES and Children

1852 MARRIAGE to Mary E ???? (1836-1852)
1859 MARRIAGE in Texas to Mary Frances Baker (1836-1914)
1861 Josiah Roberts born in Alabama to Mary A (B: 1848)
1861 William Hays Roberts in Texas to Mary Frances Baker
1861 Evan Roberts in Texas to Sarah Elizabeth Tally
1866 MARRIAGE to Nancy Roberts (1847-1912)
1868 Ada Roberts in Mississippi to Nancy Roberts
1869 MARRIAGE in Texas to Sarah Elizabeth Tally (1849-1929)
1870 Eugenia Roberts in ???? to Sarah Elizabeth Tally
1870 Eugene Roberts in Texas to unknown mother
1872 Walter Prewitt Roberts in Texas to Nancy Roberts
1872 Walton Roberts in Texas to Sarah Elizabeth Tally
1873 Albert Talley Roberts in Texas to Sarah Elizabeth Tally
1874 Willie Roberts in ???? to Nancy Roberts
1874 Albert Roberts in Texas to Sarah Elizabeth Tally
1876 Edna Roberts in Texas to Sarah Elizabeth Tally
1877 D. W. Robert in Texas to Sarah Elizabeth Tally
1879 Allie Roberts in ???? to Nancy Roberts
1887 MARRIAGE to Levonia (B: 1848)

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

Blog Reviews

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

The Fine Print

1. Copyright: Barking Up the Wrong Tree is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License and is owned and administered by Loretta Gillespie.

2. Content: Barking Up the Wrong Tree is responsible for the content of this site, not including visitor comments. Barking Up the Wrong Tree reflects the personal views and opinions of Loretta Gillespie.

3. Credit: Credit is not given to tree owners to protect the clueless. A tree owner who discovers their tree on this site should correct their mistakes so no one else realizes they were once a clickophile.

4. Accuracy and Validity: While there are helpful pointers on Barking Up the Wrong Tree a majority of posts are intended to be humorous. The disastrous trees are copied exactly as they appear on Ancestry.com. These trees are being used to show others what NOT to do.

5. Images: Attempts are made to source images used despite the fact that the trees they are taken from do not include source information.

6. Comments: Barking Up the Wrong Tree will exercise its right to delete comments which are deemed to be spam, offensive, childish or just plain stupid.

7. Liability: The content at Barking Up the Wrong Tree is not to be taken as fact nor absolute. Barking Up the Wrong Tree contains posts that are humorous and posts that are research tips. Barking Up the Wrong Tree is not responsible for anyone who cannot tell the difference between the two. The sites that Barking Up the Wrong Tree links to via hyperlinks are not under its control. Those sites are responsible for the content of those sites. If you do not find the humor on Barking Up the Wrong Tree to your taste then stop reading. If you choose instead to send an email to the owner it may be published on Barking Up the Wrong Tree and mocked publicly.

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