Barking Up the Wrong Tree

28 October 2013

A Young Crabbe

Comments after the jump.

Blanche M Crabbe Young
B: 29 Jul 1893 in Georgia, USA
D: 20 Sep 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA

SPOUSE & CHILDREN
Alexander Jonathan "AJ" Burgess Sr (1867-1944)
Married 19 May 1910 in Oglethorpe, Georgia
✿ Mabel Burgess Varner (1910-1986)
✿ Fred Waddell Burgess (1912-1998)
✿ Henry Edward Burgess (1915-1999)
✿ Alexander John Burgess Jr (1918-1954)

SPOUSE
William Samuel Eldred (1883-1956)

SPOUSE & CHILDREN
Charles D "Charlie" Young (1887-1961)
✿ Ruby Lenora Young (1912-1983)
✿ Julia May Young (1925- )
✿ Frances Marlene Young (1934-1992)

SPOUSE & CHILDREN
Harold William Young (1898-1976)
✿ 5 private
✿ Ruby Lenora Young (1912-1983)

SPOUSE
Harold C. Crabb (1912-1975)

CHILDREN with Unknown Spouse
✿ 8 private
✿ Mollie Young (1875- )
✿ Glady Margaret Crabbe (1892-1973)
✿ William Walter Crabbe (1900- )
✿ Pearl Mae Young (1902-1989)
✿ Cleo Young (1906- )
✿ Vernon R Young (1907-1994)
✿ Harold Clifford Gossman (1907-1953)
✿ Ira Belle Summer Young (1927-2007)
✿ Charles George Ellis YOUNG (1935-1987)

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

25 October 2013

Photo Friday: The Coven

Title: A little bear on a broom
Uploaded to: Mary Lovett
Born 1 Jan 1651 in Massachusetts
Died 3 Mar 1732 in Connecticut
Attached to: 2 other trees

A Creddy Bears Halloween Image

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Title: Cute Halloween witch with bats
Uploaded to: Johanna Tyler
Born 1681 in Massachusetts
Died 1728 in Connecticut
Attached to: 1 other tree

Halloween wallpaper available from various sources

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Title: cute little witch
Uploaded to: Martha Tyler
Born 1676 in Massachusetts
Died 1734 in Connecticut

Witch in the anime style

Thanks to Kristin for helping me with this post!
If you have a photo to suggest please send a link to buwtree(at)gmail(dot)com.

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21 October 2013

All Betts Are Off

Comments after the jump.

Nicholas Camp
B: 10 Jan 1606 in Nazing, Essex, England
D: 1654 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

SPOUSE & CHILDREN
Sarah Elliott (1598-1645) m. 1621 in Essex, England
✿ John Betts (1601-1638)
✿ Mary Marie Betts (1610-1638)
✿ Robert Betts (1612- )
✿ Mary Camp (Mar 1622-1651) Born in Nazeing, Essex, England
✿ Edward Camp (1622-1659) Born in Hertfordshire, England
✿ Nicholas Camp (7 Apr 1627-1706)
✿ Sarah Camp (5 Aug 1627-1676)
✿ Deacon Samuel Camp (2 Sep 1645-1736)
✿ John Camp (2 Sep 1645-1710)
✿ William Camp (1660-1713)

SPOUSE & CHILD
Edith Eady Tilley (1603-1652) m. 1646 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
✿ Abigail Camp (1647- )

SPOUSE
Katherine Thompson (1623-1652) m. 1652 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

18 October 2013

New DNA Results

AncestryDNA released their updated ethnicity results yesterday!
Of course the DNA portion of Ancestry.com promptly crashed.
I know, you're shocked.
Here is the new list of the possible results:

Africa
Africa North
Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers
Africa Southeastern Bantu
Benin/Togo
Cameroon/Congo
Ivory Coast/Ghana
Mali
Nigeria
Senegal

America
Native American

Asia
Asia Central
Asia East
Asia South

Europe
Europe East
Europe West
European Jewish
Finnish/Northern Russia
Great Britain
Iberian Peninsula
Ireland
Italy/Greece
Scandinavia

Pacific Islander
Melanesia
Polynesia

West Asia
Caucasus
Near East

I was able to get the results for all five of my tests open in separate windows in one of the short functional periods. After making all these screen caps I was going to see how this change was shown in matches and explore some of the other changes. Unfortunately the AncestryDNA site was no longer available so for today I just have images of the results to compare.
After the jump the images are side by side so you don't have to scroll up and down to see what changed for each person.

Here are the original results for (top) Dad, Mom, Mom's Aunt, (bottom) me and Baby Brother.

Here are the new results without "trace regions":

New results with "trace regions" (Dad, Mom, Mom's Aunt, Me, Brother):

After the jump: Side by side comparison

Warning: Sarcasm Ahead >>

14 October 2013

Top Ten

Celebrating 200 posts!
Well this is actually #202. I'm a little late :-P
Thanks to all of you for reading my blog!
Here are the most popular posts from the first 200.

10. A Must Read Book for 'Newbies'

9. Social Disgrace: Photo Edition

8. Another WDYTYA? Rant

7. Social Disgrace

6. AncestryDNA Site Tools

5. Fixing What's Not Broken

4. You might be a clickophile

3. Free Gen Websites

2. My DNA Results

1. Apologies Only Go So Far

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

You Did WHAT?!!? and The Sequel

The Time Travelers

Multiple Birth World Record

If you have a favorite please share it with your gen friends and groups.
Thanks!
On to the next 100 :-)

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NEXT POST: New DNA Results

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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