A plea to those who perpetuate bad limbs on their family trees

There are many in the genealogy world who copy erroneous information to their family trees, picking the rotten limbs off other trees and passing them on and on. This blog is created in a hope of helping to end some of this. It does no one any good to pass on misinformation and blatantly fraudulent branches on your tree. Put some effort into your work and produce a tree your family can be proud of, accurate and reliable.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Tidd, Todd. Oh my God!

Years ago, shortly after I started working on my family tree, I got an email from a woman researching her Tidd line and had confused it with Todds in the same area. People! John Todd is not the same person as John Tidd. John Todd married Alice Clayton. John Tidd did not. John Todd came from Pontefract. John Tidd did not. He isn't (Tidd that is) the brother of Christopher Todd. Don't publish until the facts are straight. Once it's out there it spreads like a virus.
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  1. JenSeptember 4, 2016 at 8:28 PM

    Thank you for posting this! I've just begun my Tidd research and kept seeing so many conflicting information with no clarification or citations.

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