I have a good black friend whotold me that several white back for many generations friends of hers have been told by the DNA people they have black ancestors...
she said that many cant all have African families..
I think someone was playing a stupid game with them...
Ancestry wont change their “paper” records when they are wrong...I wouldn’t trust them to do DNA...
most reputable hereditary societies wont accept records from Ancestry for proofs for membership as they don’t source their info and have blatant errors...
I’ve never had my DNA done...
Just curious, by paper records, do you mean the indexed records, such as birth, death, marriage, military, etc? Because those are actually compiled by 3rd parties, ancestry is just the clearinghouse for them. Another site I use is familysearch.org. They have the same records and more. I found a marriage record there for a family member of my husband in Mexico.
If you mean the trees, oh yes, they are a problem, but since they belong to the members who submit them, not much ancestry can do. But yeah, women giving birth to their grandchildren, men fathering children before they’re born etc. The copy and paste function makes it easy for sloppy research to be propagated
Then there are folks like me, the skeletons that fall out of the closet. I found myself in a tree, but because living people are kept private, I wasn’t sure. And he had me marked as male. I did contact him and said, is that me? BTW, I’m female. Lol. He was exceedingly gracious, invited me to my tree, I invited him and told him my fathers name, my place of birth, etc.
Which leads to generational societies. I could probably find an ancestor who would be my ticket to dar, if I wished, which would then be my ticket to my original birth certificate. But why? It seems like a snobby clique anyway. I think they don’t like DNA, like many,because too many bastards like myself start falling out of the woodwork. GGG grandma wasn’t so perfect after all. I’ll stick with being a direct descendant of Simpson Squire Black of Gaston county NC.