tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post1053122162891137088..comments2023-04-20T12:46:11.858-06:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: Sometimes They LieThe Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-28785919754650438032011-02-07T08:43:30.564-07:002011-02-07T08:43:30.564-07:00AI, re: SSDI on Ancestry.com -- it is true that in...AI, re: SSDI on Ancestry.com -- it is true that in the index the location of either last residence or last benefit is identified. However, when a user goes to attach the record citation to a tree, the format specifies "place of death" usually in truncated form (omitting town, township, etc.).Geoloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12050268303916428230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-73876995636868237832011-02-06T19:39:23.142-07:002011-02-06T19:39:23.142-07:00Dear SSDI,
This was true 6 or 7 years ago, but no...Dear SSDI,<br /><br />This was true 6 or 7 years ago, but not any longer. They even correctly distinguish Last Residence and Last Benefit.<br /><br />If there is somewhere that they still label it wrong, let me know. <br /><br />-- The InsiderThe Ancestry Insiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-91715303120778973552011-02-05T16:25:46.375-07:002011-02-05T16:25:46.375-07:00AI, it is always good to remind researchers to che...AI, it is always good to remind researchers to check an original record carefully. In this case it was not the record that lied, but the alteration.<br /><br />As for Anonymous' comment on Ancestry.com's handling of its extracts from the Social Security Deaths Index, that organization is quite prone to interjecting items into what it calls 'the record' (its purported summary or extract) that were not in the original. But the same can be said of a great variety of abstracts and summaries. Again, a look at the original is crucial.<br /><br />Yet a great many records in their 'original' state do report errors, whether deliberate falsehoods or the result of faulty knowledge or memory on the part of an informant.<br /><br />As you said, AI, careful examination of original documents as well as exploration of surrounding data are always important.Geoloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12050268303916428230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-76588186896280668122011-02-04T13:48:46.490-07:002011-02-04T13:48:46.490-07:00Ancestry is creating a lot of "lies" on ...Ancestry is creating a lot of "lies" on family trees by mislabeling data from the Social Security Death Index.<br /><br />They call the "Last Residence" the place of death. It may be the same, but often is not. I don't trust anyone's place of death unless they have some other source besides the SSDI. And of course there are a lot of entries without any source.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-22921727909301019082011-02-04T10:57:49.051-07:002011-02-04T10:57:49.051-07:00good article!!good article!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com