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 you don't, you end up doing all the fun parts first (finding new matches), then saving only the tedious record-keeping for later. And it's hard to get very exciting about the record-keeping parts of this project (at least for me).

P.S. Where does Skiba fit in to my tree?

Sherry Lynn Schneekloth is a third cousin of mine. Our common ancestors are our great-great-grandparents, Wilhelm Mann and Louise Ahrendt.

Sherry Schneekloth married Nathan Robert Schwaab. Nathan's parents were Robert Anthony Schwaab and Mary Skiba.

So this makes the Skiba name part of my tree through my third cousin's mother-in-law.

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