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The Ancestry App - a pitfall

 I started using the Ancestry app in my free time. Selecting a couple quick matches here and there. Next thing I know, I have hundreds of new documents that are in Ancestry, but that haven't been thoroughly vetted by me. Where one record may appear, for example, to show the 1958 phone book for a Patricia Skiba, when you open it and look, you see there are not only other Skiba's at the same address, but there are also other Skiba's that are already on our tree. And so, I haven't been posting much, because I've been spending most of my research hours pouring through all these new additions. [Update: 3 months later and I'm still working on these new records; 300 more to go!] And so a tip for future, or other, researchers: use the Ancestry app with a specific plan, not haphazardly. Frequently sync up Ancestry to your family tree database (such as Roots Magic) and save a copy of each source record before continuing to add more matches that Ancestry recommends. If yo...