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William Douglas's Blog – February 2011 Archive (1)
Ancestry.com, and the spread of misinformation
I have received yet another enquiry based on family trees hosted on ancestry.com which contain wrong information.
Now, I am not for one moment saying that everything on my family tree, freely accessible on the internet (though not right now, but that is a different story), is 100% correct, but my database allows anyone to 'Suggest' corrections. I have, for example, recently made a major change based on outcomes from DNA research
However, correcting something on Ancestry is a…
ContinueAdded by William Douglas on February 19, 2011 at 7:46am — 4 Comments
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