Ancestry View Famous Relatives Feature (free, father, related, records)

[CAVA1990]

I'm thinking if a connection isn't rated with 5 stars it's probably bogus. At least that's how it looked to me. On one connection on mine a child was born before her parent. Come on!

[EnricoV]

Originally Posted by le roi

I suspect that many of their accuracies are due to their attempts to digitize paper records.

They do a surprisingly good job, but even still, there are too many errors.

I suspect that the people who are contributing the garbage that clogs up the accuracy have never even attempted to look at a digitized record.

[le roi]

Originally Posted by ArkansasSlim

Not true. I had looked at the Link several years ago and after reading this Thread tonight decided to look again. It's still there and there are at least two disclaimers which implies; garbage in garbage out so use it for what it's worth. I found it to be an interesting read.

Hi Arkansas,

maybe i wasn't clear.

if your tree was connected to the database years ago, you are still connected.

if you just started a new tree, it will never connect you, whether you are related to anyone or not.

[ArkansasSlim]

Originally Posted by le roi

Hi Arkansas,

maybe i wasn't clear.

if your tree was connected to the database years ago, you are still connected.

if you just started a new tree, it will never connect you, whether you are related to anyone or not.

Thanks le roi, I did not know that. I did notice finding that Link is different than it was when I looked at it in the past. In fact, I had trouble finding it.

[DCforever]

Where do you find this Famous Relatives Feature? Is it in the Family Trees section?

[ArkansasSlim]

Originally Posted by DCforever

Where do you find this Famous Relatives Feature? Is it in the Family Trees section?

Family Tree, then your tree, then a surname in that tree, then more options, then find famous relatives.

[ArkansasSlim]

I apologize for the double post. I'm having computer problems and it didn't look like the first post uploaded.

[DCforever]

Thanks. That was buried pretty deep.

[Brice55]

As far as accuracy goes on the famous relatives feature of old, I was pretty impressed as I had family data on my 9th G Grandfather that lined up perfectly.

[kevxu]

Originally Posted by CAVA1990

I'm thinking if a connection isn't rated with 5 stars it's probably bogus. At least that's how it looked to me. On one connection on mine a child was born before her parent. Come on!

Yesterday I came across one where the father was married to the wife of one of his sons, and she then gave birth to the son and married him!

If it were true, I would probably be thrilled to pieces with the notoriety of it all....unfortunately there are such things as public records....spoils everything.