I am researching some Cooksey relatives from Roley Regis in the early 1600's (and shockingly, Maryland in the U.S.A! I have American blood upline....)
On Ancestry I came across 105 other family trees with these Cooksey in them.
On Genes Reunited I found another 30.
Everyone of them has wrong information simply copied from one to another without verification.
Occasionally somebody quotes I.G.I as their source yet when you look ath the I.G.I records they are simply submitted by L.D.S members and never refer to actual parish registers or other forms of proof.
Such I.G.I entries are no more authoratative than any of the 105 family trees on Ancestry.
So I enter the correct information on my trees with photographs of the actual parish registry entries and tombstones and now I am getting e-mails telling me how wrong I am and as a service they will give me the correct information.
When I point out that I have proof and they have none, apart from I.G.I, I am informed that is the most accurate and authoratative source so I must be wrong.
"So the Church Wardens and clerks who entered the information in the registers back in the 1600's were wrong as well?" I ask.
"Must be. I.G.I says so!"
"So the masons who carved the tombstones are wrong as well?"
"Yep!"
Lemmings.....