Changing the topic of conversation!! Have you heard that bottle trees are “the poor man’s stained glass“?  This innocuous old lady is wishing you a happy weekend.

Trust me, it takes a lot of time to (1) capture a “screenprint.” (2) crop it, (3) add to the individual(s), (4) and diplomatically describe the image. I can’t say “Hey, you guys (who copy from other trees), here are details that prove (or disprove) family members.”  A complicated process because I have to work back and forth between two computers. (The desktop computer does a poor job with screenprints.) I feel “compelled” to get accurate information in front of subscribers to Ancestry.com.

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I’m thirteen individuals short of a milestone but I’m too tired to document another family. I’m at a “stopping point”…

It started with the innocent documentation of an obituary (from a thoughtful, considerate cousin with subscriptions to obituary sources). My established habit: I document the deceased, his/her parents, the siblings, the grandparents, and on and on I go (and where I stop nobody knows). Would you believe that (after several hours) I was back to Magdalena Zug and Michael Frantz?? I found dozens of Ancestry Member Family Trees with their granddaughter married to the wrong man. Hey, it is all so well documented in Frantz Families–Kith & Kin!! Why are people carelessly attaching the wrong ancestor to their tree??

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Almost eleven PM and I’m pulling my hair!! In my humble opinion, the inconsistencies are obvious. Why don’t other Ancestry subscribers double-check their listings??

The doctor’s office just called with details regarding the tests… and I am good in all categories!! My cholesterol is a bit high but nothing that requires medication (but I don’t take “medication”). This calls for a celebration?! If it were not so horribly hot and humid (91 degrees and “feels like” 101 degrees), I’d drive to Dairy Queen for a Blizzard. ~~ Sincere THANKS to my friends and family for praying for me.

…one-track mind!! I awakened… and knew I’d been dreaming about the Wehunt family. In my dream, my questions had been answered. Fortunately, I was able to go back to sleep (after a trip to the bathroom). At 5:00 AM, I awakened again (from more Wehunt-family dream) and I was sure I could take the dream details to my computer. Regrettably, instantaneously, the information was gone. I could not remember a single detail.  ~~~~~ Curious (isn’t it?) how this dream vanished while the dream (on July 7th) was indelible.

Sizzling hot.

Remember Monopoly? At 9:50 AM, I suddenly felt “free” of the relentless search for the parents of Anna Catharina Frantz. I had exhausted every available resource and it was time to devote my time and energy to other projects.

In the early 1960s, I was a proofreader for a company* that published telephone directories. It required intense attention to letter-by-letter, number-by-number. All these years later, I am still “proofing”…

In the mid to late1980s, I was a volunteer at the local LDS Church genealogy library. (I’m not LDS, I’m a genealogist.) Frequently, the Church members were required to fill out their “four-generation charts.” Time and time again, I saw careless documentation based on “I think.”  The individual wasn’t concerned with accuracy and it translated to inaccurate information in ledgers on the shelf of the library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

In my humble opinion, many “armchair researchers” grab information and attach it to their tree. It translates to inaccurate information in Ancestry Member Family Trees that are viewed by other subscribers to Ancestry.com.

*Nothing found on the Internet about “Product Development Company.” Landlines are gone, telephone books are obsolete. This blogger is part of “ancient history” because she remembers answering machines, television sets with “rabbit ears,” and milk in glass bottles. Hey, I remember pumping water from a well, and light from kerosene lamps.