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Ancestry Direct Ancestor Tags

  • 20-10-2020 9:39pm
    #1
    Boss Of Bosses
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭


    Hi all.

    Prob a silly question.

    I was looking through a public family tree with same family surname to one of my own.

    I clicked on a person in the tree that had a photo.

    It had a tag saying DIRECT ANCESTOR.

    Would this be for Me?
    Or more than likely it's a direct ANCESTOR for the person who created the tree.

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,300 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    I think those tags are something the person building the tree can attach rather than something being displayed by Ancestry for you.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #3
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Yes, I agree, and I'm not sure I see the point of them, but for people doing much wider tree projects, probably of use.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #4
    Boss Of Bosses
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭Boss Of Bosses


    Yes I was thinking that alright.
    Some people on the tree had that. Some had not.
    It really should be for the persons benefit and privacy it's a little confusing when someone of the same family name sees it also.

    Regards ðŸ‘


  • #5
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,107 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    It's the sort of useless Ancestry 'feature' that adds to confusion and encourages wholesale (and erroneous) copying of tree branches.


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