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From: Mike Humphrey <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Ancestry new policy
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 08:41:39 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <20040503133828.24522.qmail@web50702.mail.yahoo.com>


I've had these same experiences down through the years. There are myriads of
mistakes & lots of missing data. If I hadn't been fortunate enough to have
inherited 11 generations of paper trail in the beginning of my genealogical
searches, starting over 30 years ago, I would have had an enormously
difficult time parsing through the abundant conflicting data in LDS, Rootsweb,
GenForum, etc.

Before our recent Internet era & much data online, I saw a lot of "paper" errors
(transcription, digit transpositions, simple copying, etc), and I read enough
to see patterns of propagation in books down through the years.

One of my current 2 tough family genealogy problems: trying to solve the contradictory
data to find the parents of my ancestor Michael Humphrey, born 1620 in Lyme Regis,
Dorset. LDS, Rootsweb, & GenForum data are conflicted.

Mike ...
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--- Doug McDonald <> wrote:
>
> --- Larry Tesler <> wrote:
> >
> > The new One World Tree, a different product, uses
> > proprietary
> > Ancestry.com software to find common people and
> > branches in different
> > people's trees and stitch them together to form
> > larger trees.
>
>
> A simple question: how do they stitch together
> the myriads of multiple parents for one person?
>
> How do people download data when people are their
> own parents, which will happen all the time
> because of missing or extra generations?
>
> What do they do about all the myriads of paths they
> will get between a given person and Adam?
>
> This idea worked for Iceland where one team did it
> by hand .... but for the whole world automatically?
>
> It took me months to piece together my own tree from
> Rootsweb, Genealogy.com and a little bit from the LDS
> because of mistakes.
>
> Doug McDonald
>
>
>
>
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Mike Humphrey - FTDNA Humphrey Surname Project Admin
HPC Computer Consultant - http://humphreygenealogy.com
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