Creating an Ancestry tree
 

from scratch, not uploading a GEDCOM, is extremely easy and rather scary.

I'm just putting up a basic tree on ancestry and the amount of help it wants to give is scary. It suggests potential parents, with a full list of children, although it doesn't add the children to the tree.

It seems to compare to other trees and if the details are close it offers it as a match and adds the details in if you wish. It just offered me a woman by listing her children, no other details but added in dates of birth and death and a photo it had got from another tree. I don't know the date of death, nor do I know if the photo is correct.

It is so, so easy and now I understand the number of identical trees on ancestry. There is no hard slog, no searching for misspelled names, no comparing 15 census to find your person, just a blinking yes, no or maybe button.

It's no wonder people can finish their trees in a week. :rolleyes:

So agree, Kit. My only consolation is that nobody is going to steal my research, since it differs from everyone else, so nobody believes me.

haha that's so funny and sad at the same time.

I deleted the bits it added to my tree that weren't in my offline tree but I have made a note of the information that is at a brickwall I have so I can check it out and see if it is correct.

I'm not adding everything, just years of events and state or country, not exact places. Enough detail to show I know something but not everything.