Posted on 09/07/2017 10:21:53 AM PDT by servo1969
I did mine with ancestry as I was looking for my birth parents. Ethnicity results were spot on match to my non identifying info stated. I think people sometimes forget there have been various migrations, wars Etc that can skew the expected results. Factor in unknown adoptions, affairs, it’s totally possible to get unexpected results.
BTW, my search angel found birth father in a week, verified birth mother.
Just curious, by paper records, do you mean the indexed records, such as birth, death, marriage, military, etc? Because those are actually compiled by 3rd parties, ancestry is just the clearinghouse for them. Another site I use is familysearch.org. They have the same records and more. I found a marriage record there for a family member of my husband in Mexico.
If you mean the trees, oh yes, they are a problem, but since they belong to the members who submit them, not much ancestry can do. But yeah, women giving birth to their grandchildren, men fathering children before they’re born etc. The copy and paste function makes it easy for sloppy research to be propagated
Then there are folks like me, the skeletons that fall out of the closet. I found myself in a tree, but because living people are kept private, I wasn’t sure. And he had me marked as male. I did contact him and said, is that me? BTW, I’m female. Lol. He was exceedingly gracious, invited me to my tree, I invited him and told him my fathers name, my place of birth, etc.
Which leads to generational societies. I could probably find an ancestor who would be my ticket to dar, if I wished, which would then be my ticket to my original birth certificate. But why? It seems like a snobby clique anyway. I think they don’t like DNA, like many,because too many bastards like myself start falling out of the woodwork. GGG grandma wasn’t so perfect after all. I’ll stick with being a direct descendant of Simpson Squire Black of Gaston county NC.
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