Exhausted this morning!! Good for nothing!!

Same old song: I couldn’t tear myself away from the computer!! I love a challenge, and another challenge found me.

I’m still working on the gift for my grandchildren. Eventually they will be curious about their ancestry and they will be able to effortlessly climb their tree. Yesterday, I encountered duplicate names AGAIN. Two men named Grover Cleveland Blackwell have similar birth and death dates (1889-1965 & 1886-1951). I caught the error when a second wife, and more children, while the first wife was still alive. “No, no, that’s not right.”  One by one, I researched, and documented, the children; lots of sources. One family has deep roots in Mississippi while the other has deep roots in Alabama. (No close relationship [identified] although [perhaps] different branches of the same tree.)

One more time I am going to complain about Ancestry individual Member Family Trees: “Shame, shame, blame, blame!!”  Individuals “copy” another person’s “tree” rather than search for records documenting their person.