My biggest headache w/Ancestry.com is that when you discover a lead is "bad" (i.e. someone else/you goofed up and added a non-relative) it doesn't delete the link if that link was to several persons...


I've deleted/recreated a dozen trees because of this.

I'm pretty much stuck. My dad was adopted by his maternal-side uncle, so I never knew my paternal grandparents (nor did I adopt their surname, Trott). Fortunately, my father's biological father had 12 other children, and two of them have cross-linked family trees that are well substantiated by the census, marriage, birth, and death records. I've actually tracked down further on that side, than I have the people I actually grew up with and knew my whole life. By that avenue, I've got a German GG-Grandmother, and a Scottish GGG-Grandmother (Urquhart). Unfortunately the patrilineal line stops in Baltimore for the "Trott" surname... problem is that "Trott" can be German, French, Irish, or British. My dad always told me it was German - but he could be referring to the GG-Grandmother with the surname "Spaht".

Sorry for the rant/hijack, but as you can tell - I've got my own Ancestry.com headaches.