52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2023: Week 5 (OOPS)
Mistakes happen in researching family history all the time.
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When I first wrote this blog it featured a comic that I found super amusing. It showed an angel in front of a man saying that he was this guys' 6th great grandfather who had been connected to the wrong spouse and now the woman had moved in with them.
I found it super funny, and wanted to use it as the visual for OOPS!
To include it in my blog I went looking for sources for the comic. I assumed I could post it on my blog with the appropriate sourcing since it is all over online genealogy pages.
When I found the author's site I discovered all the comics he creates can be used for a fee. I couldn't find the comic I was looking for, but I did find the drawing with different words completely unrelated to genealogy.
I did a web search for the comic, and discovered a genealogy blog where the exact comic I was looking for appears to originate. The page includes information about crediting this author as the adapter of the comic.
I was very confused, and reached out the original author via email.
In the end I couldn't use the actual comic because it is not one available from the original comic creator since it was adapted.
The adaptor does not get to take ownership because his is in copyright violation.
If you want to visit the original author or see the adapted copyright violation check sources below.
I could have started a new blog, but I thought this OOPS was a pretty big oops in the world of online copyright violation.
When using digital images from the internet many have copyright making them NOT free to use even if you say where it came from.
The adapting of copyright material is never okay.
There are many who believe that if it's on the internet it's fair game.
That is far from true.
Photos and graphics belong to the artist or creator unless they make them 'public domain' allowing others to use them.
If you want to use copyrighted images then you must have their permission which may involve paying a fee.
There are many public domain & free to use images available on Google Images, but you must search for them via TOOLS for the appropriate usage rights.
Now back to our Bramble Bush in relation to the amusing comic about attaching the wrong wife.
No one intentionally makes mistakes when researching their tree.
Once a mistake is entered into a public tree it gets copied over and over again into other trees. Before you know it families that are not connected become intertwined so completely it's difficult to unravel the mess.
This happened to me when I started my first tree on Ancestry. I was careful with the common names in our tree.
I wasn't so careful with what I viewed as unique names.
Turns out what I viewed as unique names were not unique.
In the years I have been researching I have discovered there are multiple (hundreds & thousands) of people with the same name making careful looks at the details before adding is critical.
One example of this was when I found cousins named Ann(e) Kirk Graham.
One of the cousins had an E on her birth registry, and the other did not. That didn't fully help though because they both had or didn't have an E in many of the records over their lifetimes.
They were born 3 years apart which helped a little.
They were named after their paternal grandmother.
I am unsure if I found all the children for my 5th great grandparents, Peter & Ann (nee Kirk) Graham, which means I will have to carefully tread in the future.
While writing this I realized I could use this information to search for a child born that might be another granddaughter of Ann Kirk. I discovered there is more for me to research on this brick wall.
When your oops gives a clue to future research!!!
This is why I search -
Cause ...
You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!
***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***
Sources:
6th great grandfather. Randy Glasbergen. Adapted by Genealogy Trot. Retrieved January 19th 2023 from Genealogy Trot Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogytrot/permalink/6022337397777865
Original copyright belongs to Randy Glasbergen
https://www.glasbergen.com/
Links:
Amy Johnson Crow, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/
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