Ancestry.com is a wonderful tool. But misinformation is so easily passed along and copied over and over again! This is my attempt to correct some misinformation that really bugs me.
My husband is a descendant of Henry Ford who was born 1809 in North Carolina and died 1878 in Scott County Virginia. On Ancestry.com, one of the hints that pops up for this Henry Ford is a birth record from NC. However, this birth record is from 1973! Poor Henry Bradley Ford is most likely alive and well in NC today and is completely unaware that his name and his parent's names have been passed around family trees on Ancestry.com associated with someone who has been dead for over 130 years!
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