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[jonathan]

I wasn't meaning to say that ancestry.com itself was at fault. But when a friend uses their website to research my family and finds information that proves to be incorrect, for whatever reason, I think it's fair to warn people to be on the lookout for the same. I don't remember all the details of the problems he had, only that there were problems. The part about cutting and pasting may be me misremembering the details of what he said. Here's an example of a very simple thing that can go wrong...I have a great aunt named Carolyn. He found something on ancestry.com that had her name as Caroline. Being a great aunt, I honestly didn't know all that much about her story, so I called my mom and asked her about it. My mom said that her name was Carolyn, but got curious about it, so she called the aunt to ask. The story is that her birth name was Caroline, but she always hated that name, so when she turned 18 she went and had it legally changed to Carolyn. There was information on ancestry.com that had her name as Caroline, which according to the woman herself had been legally changed to Carolyn decades before. All I'm saying is be aware. By the way, Aunt Carolyn/Caroline is just one example of the awesome, strong southern women in my family. Another is Cousin Addie, who the other day confirmed she will be attending my dad's 80's birthday party this weekend. Cousin Addie is a firecracker in her early 90's who still lives alone, many years after her husband died. We kind of rock