Ancestry Saturday: When The Indirect Approach Just Won't Work

I've tried to be indirect.  Post it online with facts and assume the search engines will bring a change to correct the record.  That's the theory.

Theory and reality haven't met.

I wrote in November 2013 that I had discovered the death date for Phebe Ann Woodmansee to be 27 Jul 1883.  That piece was intended to convince some of the people with websites and Ancestry.com family trees to change their death dates.  There are at least 56 public trees on Ancestry.com and not one has changed yet. 

I pleaded in a piece in January this year for my fellow researchers to take the Worthington out of Thomas W. Sanders in their family trees.  Only one of 14 Ancestry.com has dropped back to a W.

Even worse, in September 2013 I presented a preponderance of evidence that his parent's were John and Emily (Jones) Sanders, not Thomas and Sarah (Ham) Sanders.  Yet, 10 of the 14 Ancestry.com trees still have Thomas and Sarah.  The other four have no parents listed.

It's time to set the record straight.

I made direct contact with many of the Ancestry.com fellow researchers.  Now, the changes are slowing coming about.