This response is for Jason about getting permission to fix other people family trees, and how frustrating it is. What if you fixed some one else's tree and you were wrong? Then what? Here is my point. I feel that it is best to contact that person and show them the sources that would prove your point and let them fix it themselves! I have seen researchers over the past 40 years disagree with who the next ancestor is in the family line. When you are back far enough into your research you might come across a genealogist and his work and find that he has errors in his research. In the "Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley" Their Ancestors and Descendants by Robert Edmond Chester Waters, the error was there! The book is beautifully written and has a lot of information on family genealogy. However, I found the elephant that was sitting in the room! On page 225 the author stated that the wife of Richard Osborne I is Jane Broughton and her father was John Broughton. HOWEVER, on page 237 in a descending chart the author stated that Jane's father was Richard Broughton. This is what they call a scribber's error. This spun me into additional research. In the Genealogist, the author stated that it was "NO NECESSARY TO REHASH the Chester of Chicheley book. OMG! So he just took it as being accurate with out errors! Why? Because he was a genealogist? So the mistake lives on! Many researchers argue over who is the father of Jane Broughton. They read part of the book and failed at finding the second man, Richard, the brother of John Broughton. You might ask as to what is the difference because which ever brother it is their father will be the same. Well the difference lies in who the mother is. One line has a little bit of royalty in it and the other is loaded with royal lines. I have come across another researcher and she told me a story of finding 3 parallel lines and the other researcher all waving their paper work at her stating they had the exact answer and every one else was wrong! Only one of them was right, and the other two were wrong. It is better to make suggestions than correct their paper work. Even making suggestions that you want them to change their work you should offer the sources.
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