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.

Sunday, September 29, 2013

William H. McCaskey, Meigs Ohio

I'm not sure how misinformation appeared on Find A Grave and the Ohio Tombstone project but the information that the grave in the McCaskey cemetery is that of William H. McCaskey, son of Joseph and Sarah is glaringly wrong. The photo of the stone clearly states: William H. son of Joseph & Sarah McKNIGHT. He was also, as seen in a close up view, either 12 or 17 y/o, clearly not William McCaskey, supposed husband of Elizabeth Cline/Kline. One now has to wonder if the father of Samuel McCaskey was named William. There are two McCaskey males listed on the Find a Grave site in that cemetery, Noah and Elmer with no birth dates.

This error was corrected on the site.
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