Parentage of Janet DOUGLAS

If you be kind enough to add that information to the profile, I will be kind enough to correct the relationship in the tree. Advise when you are done.

I was working on that tree today at Donald's request. Parentage doesn't seem to be in dispute but I will keep looking. There were some other errors I have been working on.

Janet was connected originally to her assumed grandparents and I changed them to her assumed parents and noticed that Jason disconnected them. Please leave the reconnected parents until more research is done. By disconnecting her we leave a tree swinging in the breeze. I would advise against just disconnecting profiles just because someone comes along and says to do so until we are sure it is correct. Thanks!

So, how much swinging in the breeze do you want to stop?

Why not just make up a whole lot of fictitious rubbish -al la Mr & Mrs SMITH in AF. Carry on till you reach Mr & Mrs Amoeba - er except they were all Miss!

The default position is always UNKNOWN. In this case, her parentage should be that default. Said to link to just about the best family around just doesn't cut it.

Just be happy with what the editors of SP had to say "but this is improbable, and her parentage is uncertain". Obviously she had parents, probably her father was a DOUGLAS. But Scottish inheritance laws can often confuse this.

This is Wishful Linking, and has no place in serious genealogy. Keep it that way in your off-line databases if it makes you happy, it's only a hobby after all. But don't publish.

And especially don't publish if my research has been forced to link to something that I cannot accept.

Donald. If we could stop swinging in the breeze everywhere we would.

You will note we will all gladly and politely jump in and correct anywhere that you point us. We appreciate it - truly. We want the tree to only get better all of us. So we share this objective?

We appreciate you do not want to share your research or work with us in a collaborative fashion- which is a real shame. I would really appreciate your input and contribution to making us so much better.

Please appreciate. Geni is not a genealogist only site. We have an approach different to what you would expect.

You also join us at a crucial time in our tree development.. You are right. The tree is riddled with errors. The question we are focused on, is now to get rid of these errors. Something you are contributing to in a very big way. But we really could do without your constant sarcasm and you will need to accept that Geni is not for you to keep your work seperate. Here we all share in equal measures on each and every profile....