Barking Up the Wrong Tree

23 May 2014

Clickophile

I'm sorry I haven't been posting much lately. My computer is dying and it takes forever to get anything done. I'm hoping to get a new one at the end of summer and have an iPad mini in the meantime. Unfortunately writing blog posts on the mini is a royal PITA. Yeah, I know, First World problems ;-) I'll post when I can.
For now here's a profile from a typical clickophile tree. How many offenses can you find?

Dagobert I Austrasia
Birth abt 602 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France
Death 19 Jan in St Denis, Paris, Ile-de-France, France

SPOUSE
Berthilde
Birth in Metz, Marion, West Virginia, United States
Death in Y, Somme, Picardie, France

SPOUSE & CHILDREN
Ragentrude Berthilde
✿ Chlodovech Clovis II of Neustria
✿ Règinotrude De Neustria (0637-0697)
✿ Ragnetrud The Franks (1893- )

SPOUSE & CHILDREN
Nantilde DeNeustria (610-642)
✿ Adela Austrasia
✿ Chlodovech Clovis Neustria DeNeustria
✿ Clovis DeNeustria DeBurgundy
✿ Ragnetrud The Franks
✿ Sigebert Austrasia

RECORDS
Ancestry Member Trees

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

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09 May 2014

No Leeway, The Photos

Here, finally, are the photos from the tree that contains this profile.
The tree has 705 photos. The photos below are 561 of them.
The "maybe" images should be yellow on a white background. I have no idea why the colors have changed. Also, most of the image files are much smaller here. On Ancestry.com they are wasting much more space.

Title: Yes
Uploaded 1 time.

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Title: Maybe
Uploaded 6 times.

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Title: no
Uploaded 17 times.

✿ ✿ ✿

Title: maybe
Uploaded 35 times.

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Title: yes
Uploaded 58 times.

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Title: Maybe
Uploaded 105 times.

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Title: no
Uploaded 113 times.

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Title: No
Uploaded 226 times.

Thanks to Kristin for the link ;-)

If you have a profile or photo to suggest please send a link to buwtree(at)gmail(dot)com.

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30 April 2014

Dead End Street

WARNING!

This post will involve a lot of scrolling.

If you have carpal tunnel issues proceed at your own risk.

Post is continued after the jump.

You can't say I didn't warn you.

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

25 April 2014

Not in Line for the Throne

This screen cap below was posted, by the tree owner, to a genealogy Facebook page last month. I have cropped the image to remove the tree owner's Ancestry.com username. She posted to ask about how to enter names from eras before surnames were common because, "I have many of the European Royalty in my line."
I just want to point out one thing but I'll let you take a look first in case you'd like to guess what the 'one thing' is.

Think you've got it? Here is that comment that I restrained myself from making on Facebook:

"The great-grandfather of the husband of your 14th great-grand aunt is not in YOUR line!"

It's easy to get sidetracked by a tangential family when there's a story or a mystery. If you don't keep track of where your family stops and the other family begins or you'll wind up researching the neighbor of the nephew of the great-grandfather of your 4th cousin's brother-in-law. If that's what you want to do, great but that wouldn't even be a collateral line, much less your line.
I will never understand the desperate need to be connected to royalty. And why does that desperation go hand in hand with fake coats of arms?

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14 April 2014

Bang Your Head

Back to the trees today :-)

Jane Bangar
Birth 1712 in Virginia, United States
Death 25 Jun 1762 in Weston

PARENTS
John Bangar (1690-1725)
Mary (1700-1724)

SPOUSE & CHILDREN
Benjamin Garner (1663-1713) married 1683, Weston, Wyoming, United States
✿ [female] Garner (1664-1724)
✿ William Garner (1680-1749)
✿ Charles Garner (1684- )
✿ Joseph Garner (1684-1776)
✿ William Garner (1686-1771)
✿ Thomas Garner (1687-1726)
✿ John Garner (1688- )
✿ Mary Garner (1689- )
✿ Jane Joyce Garner (1690-1781)
✿ Susanna Garner (1690- )
✿ Jeremiah Garner (1694- )
✿ Charles Garner (1733-1797)
✿ William Garner (1735- )
✿ John Garner (1739-1813)
✿ Mary Garner (1741- )
✿ Susannah Garner (1743-1841)

SPOUSE & CHILDREN
John Garner (1708-1762) married 1730 in Stafford, Stafford, Virginia, United States
✿ [female] Garner (1664-1724)
✿ William Garner (1680-1749)
✿ Charles Garner (1684- )
✿ William Garner (1686-1771)
✿ Thomas Garner (1687- )
✿ John Garner (1688- )
✿ Mary Garner (1689- )
✿ Susanna Garner (1690- )
✿ Joseph Garner (1692- )
✿ Jeremiah Garner (1694- )
✿ Charles Garner (1733-1797)
✿ William Garner (1735-1771)
✿ John Garner (1739-1813)
✿ Mary Garner (1741- )
✿ Susannah Garner (1743-1841)
✿ Lewis Garner (1750-1815)
✿ Bradley Garner (1754-1838)
✿ Mary Garner (1756-1849)

SPOUSE
Thomas Reno (1703-1777) married 1762 in Prince William, Virginia, United States

RECORDS ATTACHED
✿ Family Data Collection - Individual Records
    Name: John Garner
    Spouse: Jane Joyce
    Parents: John Garner, Susanna Keene
    Birth Place: of, Northumberland, VA
    Birth Date: 20 Jun 1663
    Marriage Place: Weston
    Marriage Date: 1679
    Death Place: Weston
    Death Date: 25 Mar 1713
Events attached to: Birth, Marriage to John Garner, Marriage to Thomas Reno, Death
✿ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
    Name: John Garner
    Gender: Male
    Birth Place: VA
    Birth Year: 1663
    Spouse Name: Jane Joyce
    Marriage Year: 1678
Events attached to: Birth, Marriage to John Garner, Marriage to Thomas Reno
✿ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
    Name: John Garner
    Gender: Male
    Birth Place: VA
    Birth Year: 1660
    Spouse Name: Jane Joyce
    Marriage Year: 1678
Events attached to: Marriage to Benjamin Garner
✿ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: John Garner
Gender: Male
Birth Place: EN
Birth Year: 1633
Spouse Name: Susanna Keene
Marriage Year: 1659
Events attached to: Marriage to Benjamin Garner
✿ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: John Garner
Gender: Male
Birth Place: VA
Birth Year: 1633
Spouse Name: Susannah Keene
Spouse Birth Year: 1634
Marriage Year: 1660

Marriage State: VA

Events attached to: Marriage to Benjamin Garner

There's a span of almost 40 years with no births but plenty of children were born before and after that dry spell. About half of the children were born before their maternal grandparents. Every "record" attached to the profile is for John Garner, and it's not even the John Garner Jane was supposedly married to. There's a marriage event in Wyoming a couple of centuries before it became a state. The tree owner couldn't find the name of one female child, or her spouse, but figuring out the death date was no problem. And of course it's always amusing to have a woman giving birth to children that have two fathers and showing that one of those fathers sired children after his death.
Did I miss anything?

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

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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.

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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.

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