{"id":429,"date":"2015-07-03T22:21:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T22:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2015-07-03T22:23:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T22:23:53","slug":"autogenerated-lifestory-on-ancestry-com-dreams-of-immgration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"AutoGenerated &#8220;LifeStory&#8221; on Ancestry.com Dreams of Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk about the &#8220;new look&#8221; of\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em>. I&#8217;m not going to discuss that here mainly because it&#8217;s been hashed over on other blogs and forums and, frankly the way things look is often superficial anyway.<\/p>\n<p>However.<\/p>\n<p>I took a look at the &#8220;lifestory&#8221; for John George Trautvetter just to see what all the fuss was about.<\/p>\n<p>What frustrated me was that\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>autogenerated a year of immigration for my ancestor that simply is not true.\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em> apparently concluded that because my ancestor was in Germany in 1844 and in the United States in 1860 that he immigrated in 1860. It even put that year in the &#8220;lifestory&#8221; for John George as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lifestorytrautvetter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-430\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lifestorytrautvetter.jpg\" alt=\"lifestorytrautvetter\" width=\"784\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lifestorytrautvetter.jpg 784w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lifestorytrautvetter-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Based upon what is in my tree, John George would have immigrated between 1844 and 1860&#8211;not in 1860.<\/p>\n<p>I know when John George immigrated, but haven&#8217;t linked that information to my tree at <em>Ancestry.com<\/em>. My tree at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> is generally for my own personal use only and not complete at all. John George and his family appear on a passenger manifest arriving in Baltimore in July of 1853.<\/p>\n<p>If the &#8220;trees&#8221; with wacky information was not bad enough, now\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> is autogenerating it.<\/p>\n<p>And why on Earth do I need a picture of a child petting a nursing calf to illustrate German migration?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk about the &#8220;new look&#8221; of\u00a0Ancestry.com. I&#8217;m not going to discuss that here mainly because it&#8217;s been hashed over on other blogs and forums and, frankly the way things look is often superficial anyway. However. I took a look at the &#8220;lifestory&#8221; for John George Trautvetter just to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}