Posts

Showing posts with the label Big Tree

Big Tree Same Name Issues

Image
Do you have 'same name' issues in your genealogy research? I know I have them in mine: Hiram Currey Noah Briles James Crawford William Thompson Thus, I'm a little sensitive when computer algorithms merge them together.  I first encountered this with Ancestry's One World Tree when my James Crawford research was merged into one profile.  Recently, Randy Seaver has been writing about Ancestry issues. His recent post, A Reader's Take on Ancestry Problems, Part IV: The Ancestry Big Tree  discusses what he has learned about Ancestry's Big Tree. Randy also discussed the Ancestry Big Tree on today's session of Monday's with Myrt .  I evidently browsed thru Randy's post since I didn't pick up on the Google search aspect. However, when Randy demonstrated a Google search on Monday's with Myrt, I started wondering how the Big Tree would handle my same name issues. Thus, I started searching. My first search was for my ancestor...