You mention correcting information. I am on the 1950 US census but the optical recognition software gave me another name. I corrected it early on, but recently saw someone had entered the incorrect name on their family tree. I found a lot of older relatives & corrected their names as needed also. I know the best advice is "go to the original," but not everyone does that. So, what's the best way to handle the situation at this point? I didn't see anyway to contact the person who posted the incorrect name. Should I just jignore it & hope it gets corrected sometime in the future? Jump up & down & throw a hissy-fit? Is there another option?
Great question. Some collections on FamilySearch have an edit option on the record page. Some editing options are accessible through the index when you're looking on an image. If those two options are not enabled on the person you want to correct or the image you're reviewing, then there isn't much you can do about it. That's my best advice at present.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I found the options to make corrections after some time. Maybe a video on this would be helpful. I corrected my name, my brother's, my grandmother's, several cousins, many neighbors of mine & the others. My husb & I enjoyed looking at all the names & remembering those people. That process did bring up another question ... If the enumerator misspelled a name but was otherwise almost correct, should that person be listed/indexed as written or spelled correctly, i.e. Ephram (as listed) or Ephraim (as correctly spelled)? Are there "rules" on such things?
@suellenw561 I've heard it makes some relatives quite mad, when it's publicly editable. I know for a fact we were "battersby" but someone's loose cursive made it "battersly". I'm afraid to mess with it!
I would recommend looking at Newspapers. Many court filings and decisions appear in newspapers. This may help direct you to the correct court with relevant dates. And then, possibly the case number.
Hey man, let me start by saying, I am enjoying your channel and learning little things that I can tell people (which makes me look knowledgeable hahaha). Is England & Northwest European considered Celtic, Anglo/Saxon? Also...how much "untested" DNA through Ancestry is normal? I found a fairly expensive test that claims to test 100% of the DNA. It also claims Ancestry only test around 2% (or maybe it was 0.2% or 0.02%. What says you on this?
Let me add...my missing/untested DNA is a large chunk. Is there a way to send you a screenshot to get your opinion? Unlike examples you've shown (that I've seen) the untested is scattered about. Mine is around a fifth or sixth of chromosomes/lines 13, 14, 15, 21 and 22. All "untested" is at the begining of the chromosome painter chart.
I say that company isn't worth testing with. Testing 100% of DNA doesn't improve your DNA results since so much of that DNA is the same with other humans that it's not really worth the effort. Additionally, unless the company can help you build a genetic family tree, you're wasting your money on ethnicity results.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Thank you for the advice and reply. I plan to work my way down your lost of recommended sites (on videos). I'm just curious as to the large sections of "untested" with AncestryDNA. Your examples (of yours) are the first I'd ever seen and I was expecting similar. However...if I took the "untested" (in mine) I could make it medium sized double lined chromosome.
