Barking Up the Wrong Tree

31 May 2013

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A photo gallery with 449 photos and 180 of them are some variation of this:

Here's a screen cap from the photo gallery:

Some of the incredibly original and informative titles are:

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And yes, some of them have been attached to other trees.

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

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29 May 2013

Where?!!?

Comments after the jump.

Zorobabel Sheshbazzar Zerubbabel Governor Judea ha David
B: in Babylon, Suffolk, New York, United States
D: in Zion, Lake, Illinois, United States

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

27 May 2013

Speechless

More after the jump.

Geata Jat Trojan
B: 1965 in Åsgard, More og Romsdal, Norway
D: in Troy, Oakland, Michigan

FATHER
Tecti Taetwa Troy Trojan
B: 40 in Scands, Goth
D: in Asia, Ghowr, Afghanistan
MOTHER
Lady Taetwa Tecti

SPOUSE
Gogolfr Godwuff
SPOUSE
Freothalaf Trojan
CHILDREN with Unknown Spouse
✿ Flocwald Asgard
     B: in Ad, Maluku, Indonesia
✿ Trojan Godwulf
   B: in East
     D: in Asia, Ghowr, Afghanistan
✿ Trojan Godwulf Asgard
     D: in Ghowr, Afghanistan

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

24 May 2013

Puritan Playboy

The phrase "rolling over in their graves" comes to mind.

Title: Josiah Foote (1688-1778)
Description: 6th Great Grandfather of Hugh Hefner--Playboy Mogul
Attached: 1 other tree
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Title: Jonathan Foote (1715-1803)
Description: 5th Great Grandfather of Hugh Hefner--Playboy Mogul
Attached: 5 other trees
✿
Title: Freelove Martha Foote (1750-1812)
Description: 4th Great Grandmother of Hugh Hefner--Playboy Mogul
Attached: 5 other trees
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Title: Daniel Wright (1778-1874)
Description: 3rd Great Grandfather of Hugh Hefner--Playboy Mogul
Attached: 8 other trees
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Title: Mary Wright (1805-1884)
Description: Great Great Grandmother of Hugh Hefner--Playboy Mogul
Attached: 3 other trees

This continues down to Hugh Hefner's father. I can't tell what the reasoning is but this is the only line with the photo. The photo is not attached to Hugh Hefner's mother or Mary Wright's husband or Daniel Wright's wife, etc..

Thanks to Sharron for finding this photo ;-)
If you have a photo to suggest please send a link to buwtree(at)gmail(dot)com.

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22 May 2013

The person with the most records...

...does not win.

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Gloria Jean Lanham
B: 18 Feb 1946 in Covington, Kentucky
D: 7 Aug 1946 in Laurel, Kentucky

SOURCE INFORMATION

✿ 1930 United States Federal Census 1, 2, 3
     Virden Abney, male, born abt 1907
     Wife Margaret, children Audra & Mariline
✿ 1940 United States Federal Census 1, 2, 3
   Verden Reese Abney, male, born abt 1907
     Wife Margaret, children Audrey, Marceline & Farrell
✿ Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999 1, 2, 3
     Gloria J Lanham, 18 Feb 1946 in Kenton County
✿ Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1953 1, 2, 3
     Gloria Jean Lanham, 7 Aug 1946 in Laurel County
     Born 18 Feb 1946 in Covington, Kentucky
✿ Social Security Death Index 3
     Virden Abney, born 22 Apr 1906, died 1 Dec 1992
✿ Web: Kentucky, Find A Grave Index, 1776-2012 1, 2, 3
     Virden R. Abney, born 22 Apr 1906, died 1 Dec 1992

1 Source for birth
2 Source for death
3 Source for name

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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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