Sarah McTare McCormick (Welsh) - Example of Bad Treemaking

I don't know really know anything about this profile, but I get what you are saying about bad information from other sources - whether My Heritage or Ancestry or some other databases. One thing about My Heritage that I am trying to do is when I find bad information, contact the profile manager. I did three last week - one did email me back a thanks. The "autofill" feature in some databases is a real problem. Nichols, South Carolina was Nichols, Oregon in the year 1700. Not likely, but the profile manager had not noticed it was not feasible. Sometimes, there is just too much bad info out there an no way to fix it, though. I get it.

There is a Findagrave.com record for her https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154318915 which does not comport with the Geni information at all. Different birth date, different death date, records of only two of her children emigrating to America, and eight remaining in Londonderry, Ireland (this does not pass the smell test - what mother would just abandon eight of her children?)

It's also rather smelly that she's the *only* extant record for that cemetery - which cannot have been named before 1785, when Dauphin County was split off from Lancaster County. And that record is completely unsupported - no photograph, no nothing.

Finally, that she is given a "middle" name in a period when middle names were hardly ever used, raises the possibility that she was married more than once and that one of the extraneous names, either McTarre or Welsh, belongs to a first husband.

We've had ongoing problems with Maj. John Welsh, because so many people want to pirate him for their family trees. Most recently he lost one of his sons to a pirate who recreated a bogus tree he'd been separated from and the relationships locked. I'm trying to get that reversed, but it probably will require Curator assistance.

And I thought I had a problem sorting three Catherines and three Samuels who I am pretty sure are all real people who lived in sort of different times, but are all likely related. We will never know due to the lack of information on women, but dates do not lie. You cannot have a child before you are born.

Disconnected Jonathan McTaree Welsh from parents.

The McCormick genealogy has no name for her.

https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000125879867089&

Can anyone supply an actual reference?

Found references, they are garbled and cite no records.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Welsh-24

A user-submitted tree on GEDBAS (German site) claims Jonathan McTaree WELSH, son of John WELSH and Anne Elizabeth GROSSE, was born 1646, died 9 January 1681, married Katherine WEYER, and is the father of 1649 Sarah WELSH.[1]
Sources
1. ↑ http://www.gedbas.de/person/show/1210961586
http://gedbas.genealogy.net/person/show/1237623607

I disconnected from parents and added the names to the AKA.

If the McCormick genealogists don’t know who she was, neither does Geni.

The children need work. I suspect they may belong to other families or generations.

Bad merge (and FindaGrave).

Dr. John Isaac McCormick Was the son of a JOHN McCormick.

Also disconnected Neale McCormick born in Virginia.

The other children were at least born in Ireland so who knows. I only have record for sons Hugh & Thomas who emigrated 1735 or before to Pennsylvania. It does not seem their parents came to America,

Thank you for calling attention.