Bottomless Pit

Thanks to Claire for the link to this profile! I wanted to thank her right at the top because you may never get to the bottom of this post. Seriously. I think this tree owner has added every event from their entire tree to this one profile.
Some of the more amusing notes are on events that have no date. If you want to skip to those you may want to start at the end of the post and scroll up.
If you see events not in chronological order they are not typos on my part. I think Ancestry's computer just threw up its metaphorical hands in despair. With almost 2000 marriage events who can blame it?
These are the records/sources attached to the profile:

1870 U.S. Federal Census
James Sanford, born abt 1836 in Michigan; living in Lansing, Mower, Minnesota
Civil War Service Records
James Sanford, 11th Wisconsin Infantry, Company B
U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index
William Anderson, arrived in Maryland in 1659
U.S. Civil War Soldiers
James Sanford, 11th Wisconsin Infantry, Company B
U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files
James M. Sanford, 11th Wisconsin Infantry, Company B; widow Annie C. Sanford
U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles
James M. Sanford, enlistment date 12 Sep 1861, 11th Wisconsin Infantry, Company B
Ancestry Family Trees
Profiles included in this "source" are for Luna Elizabeth Sanford, Benjamin Albee, Luanna Rutledge, Charles Thurston Capwell, Henry Talladay, Charles Byron Andrews, John Milroy, James Austin Criswell, James Burns, Betty Ann POTTS, and George David Shannon

The entire profile is after the jump.

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.

PREVIOUS POST: No Leeway, The Photos
NEXT POST: Bottomless Pit

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.

 ✿ ✿ ✿

Title: Maybe
Uploaded 6 times.

 ✿ ✿ ✿

Title: no
Uploaded 17 times.

 ✿ ✿ ✿

Title: maybe
Uploaded 35 times.

 ✿ ✿ ✿

Title: yes
Uploaded 58 times.

✿ ✿ ✿

Title: Maybe
Uploaded 105 times.

✿ ✿ ✿

Title: no
Uploaded 113 times.

✿ ✿ ✿

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.

PREVIOUS POST: Dead End Street
NEXT POST: Clickophile

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.

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?


PREVIOUS POST: Bang Your Head
NEXT POST: Dead End Street