Barking Up the Wrong Tree

31 December 2012

A Blessing for the New Year

All children have the Blessing surname.
All children were born in Schlat, Goppingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany unless otherwise indicated.
Comments after the jump.

JOHANNES BLESSING
B: 1 Nov 1646 in Schlat, Goppingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
D: 6 Sep 1706 in Schlat, Goppingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

SPOUSE
Agatha Blessing (1538-1616)
Married 1560 in Schlat, Goppingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
CHILDREN
Johannes, B: 27 Aug 1565
Johannes, B: 29 Sep 1566
Barbara, B: 26 Aug 1567
Georg, B: 19 Feb 1570
Bartholomäus, B: 24 Aug 1572
Barbara, B: 20 Jul 1574
Margaretha, B: 28 Oct 1576
Agatha, B: 8 May 1578
Johann Georg, B: 27 Sep 1579

SPOUSE
Maria Reissinger (1561-1637)
Married 1583 in Nellingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
CHILDREN
Johann Georg, B: 27 Sep 1579

SPOUSE
Margarethe Rapp (1651-1725)
Married 1671 in Schlat, Goppingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
CHILDREN
Georg, B: 16 Jan 1674
Johann Michael, B: 13 Mar 1677
Leonhard, B: 15 Sep 1678
Andreas, B: 15 Feb 1680
Andreas, B: 26 Mar 1681
Peter, B: 3 Dec 1682
Bartholomäus, B: 19 Aug 1684
Joseph, B: 30 Sep 1688
Anna Margaretha, B: 2 Jun 1690
Ulrich, B: 29 Feb 1692

SPOUSE
Margarethe Schmid (1644-1679)
Married 1678 in Schlat, Goppingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
No children

SPOUSE
Margarethe Hauser (1661-????)
Married 1679 in Schlat, Goppingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
CHILDREN
Margarethe, B: 3 Aug 1681
Johann Ulrich, B: 26 Jan 1684
Georg, B: 12 Jan 1688
Bartholomäus, B: 27 Jan 1690
Waldburga, B: 25 May 1692
Michael, B: 20 Feb 1694
Maria, B: 11 May 1698
Anna Catharine, B: 15 Dec 1699

SPOUSE
Dorothea Müller (1650-????)
Married 1706 in Schlat, Goppingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
No children

SPOUSE
Helena Blessing (1753-1796)
Married 1774 in Kleineislingen, Donaukreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
No children

SPOUSE
Anna Catharina Häderle (1752-1813)
Married 1777 in Sparwiessen, Donaukreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
CHILDREN
Anna Maria, B: 18 Mar 1789 in Sparwiesen, Goppingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Johann Georg, B: 6 Apr 1791 in Sparwiesen, Donaukreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

SPOUSE
Anna Maria Widmann (1763-1837)
Married 1787
CHILDREN
Christina, B: 13 Nov 1790
Maria Barbara, B: 26 Aug 1796
Johann Georg, B: 27 Dec 1803

SPOUSE
Anna Marie Wust (1651-1725)
No marriage date
No children

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

27 December 2012

Fixing What's Not Broken 2

The threads on Ancestry.com's Facebook page have changed to "What can Ancestry.com do better?" but they are still posted once a week. Most people who comment never look at the thread again so replying over there seems rather pointless. At least here I can entertain myself and hopefully some of you too.
You know what's after the jump. As always the comments are cut and pasted with no corrections and my comments are in red.

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

24 December 2012

Jesus of Connecticut

Comments after the jump.

Joseph ( Father Of Jesus)
B: Bethelehem,Palestine
D: Nazareth,Palestine

FATHER
Heli Ben Matthat
B: Luke, Allegany, Maryland, United States
D: July, Ad Abbey Glais, Glastonbury, Wales

SPOUSE
Mary The Virgin
B: Nazareth, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States
D: France
CHILDREN
James Arimathea Brother the Lord
B: Arimathea, Judea, Israel
D: Glastonbury, Somerset, England
Jesus Christ
B: Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
D: Golgatha, Yerushalayim, Israel
Joseph Of Arimathaea
B: Bc Arimathea, Judea, Israel
D: Abbey Glais, Glastonbury, Wales
Joseph Of Arimathaea
B: 0001 in Arimathea, Judea, Israel
D: 0101 in Abbey Glais, Glastonbury, Wales

SPOUSE
Unknown
CHILDREN
Jesus Christ
B: Israel
D: Israel

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

20 December 2012

Top Ten

This is my 100th post! Thank you all for reading my blog! In the first few months there were a couple times I considered quitting but because I had a few subscribers and some encouraging friends I kept going. I'm having a lot of fun, despite the head banging, and hope to keep going for at least 100 more :-)
These have been the most popular posts so far:

10. Learning New Tricks

9. One Wrong Move

8. The Time Travelers

7. Do You See What I See?

6. This Time It's Personal

5. You did WHAT?!!?

4. Public vs. Private

3. Find A Grave

2. My DNA Results

1. Free Gen Websites

Here are a few of my favorites that didn't make the top ten:

  You've Got It All Wrong

  My Mother, The Zombie

  So I Have a Few Duplicates

  DNA Will Solve Everything

  Multiple Birth World Record

If you have a favorite post I hope you'll share it with your genie friends. Thanks!

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17 December 2012

Love Yourself

Comments after the jump.

Barsheba McGee (1796-1867)
   Father: Bernard Clements (1770-1807)
   Mother: ???
   Spouse: Barsheba McGee (1808-1871)
Child's name, sex, birth year
Benjamin N Clements, M, 1823
Benjamin Clements, M, 1823
David Clemens Clements, M, 1826
Mary A Clements, F, 1828
Clemens Clements, F, 1831
Thomas Clements, M, 1831
A Maning Clements, M, 1833
Manen Clements, M, 1833
Frances Clements, F, 1836
Frances D Clements, F, 1836
Wiltha Wealthy Ann Clements, F, 1838
W A Clemens, M, 1838
Solomon Clements, M, 1840
Sarah M Clements, F, 1842
Joel J Clements, M, 1844
Flora Clements, F, 1848

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

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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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