Ancestry/Genealogy

To find relatives hopefully, not having one of your own relatives picked up by someone that does not seem to have a clue as to what they are doing and putting them in an erroneous family tree.

I could perhaps see these sorts of mistakes if even the places involved were similar, but its a long haul from San Francisco to Iowa!

The info. is there because I have been hoping to find links to this particular line of people that seemed to all but vanish after The Great Famine in Ireland. What happened to them? Were there more of them? Any brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, etc.? I've been trying to find out more only to find that what little info. I do have is being misused as I continue to hit that same brick wall that will never go away it seems to me.

It irks me to think that people just snatching up members of various families out there without even doing the necessary research to verify that yes, it does belong in their tree.

My point is that this sort of incompetency makes this whole effort of researching our past and our ancestors that much more difficult if it is now being filled with errors because they thought the name might fit somehow. Where does this info. go next? How long will these errors live on for? This is my main concern with this.