1. Failing to look for and record the correct full name of an ancestor.One of the side benefits of looking at a large collection of usersubmitted family trees is that it is fairly easy to compare thesubmissions of any one individual and see the variations. In this case, Ihave used Ancestry.com's Public Member Trees and New FamilySearch forthe lists. All of the individuals I examine in this post as well knownand accurate information on the individual is extremely easy to find. Ican verify a name of any of these individuals from several online freeoriginal sources. Here is the classic example from my family: HenryMartin Tanner. Just to get an idea of the number of submissions,Ancestry.com's Public Trees show 37,110 returns on a search for hisname. The name variations are as follows:
Henry Martin Tanner
Henry Tanner
Henry M. Tanner
Henry W. Tanner (obviously wrong)
I started with someone who is well recorded. Here is the second example: Henry's father, Sidney Tanner.
Sidney Tanner
Sidney
Sydey Tanner
Sydney Tanner
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