ARGH! Ancestry's new feature is disappointing...

I just discovered THIS:  http://apv.ancestry.com/50558183%3A9009%3A66/overview?treeid=54485674&personid=13681670623

It has the "life story" of Célina Boulé!    Marvelous, you say!  Mystery solved.

Um, not so much.   Here it is:

When Célina Marie Boulé dit Laliberté was born on March 18, 1840, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, her father, Célestin, was 47, and her mother, Marie, was 44. She married ALEXANDRE GUIMOND and they had nine children together. She also had one son and three daughters from another relationship. She died on April 18, 1928, in Lotbinière, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 88, and was buried in Lotbinière, Quebec, Canada.

Here are the problems with that:

1. We don't know when or where she was born.   It was AROUND 1840 based on her death record.   No one has ever been able to find anything that conclusively proves the March 18 date; it just gets passed around from Ancestry tree to tree.
2. "Her father Célestin" - except that he's not her father.   People have mixed up two different Célinas; ours has no birth record, and her marriage record does not list her parents.
3. "She also had one son and three daughters from another relationship".  No - she didn't.  That's the OTHER Célina.

This REALLY PISSES ME OFF, because it's being touted as a new "feature" of Ancestry, WITHOUT disclaimers that the data presented might entirely incorrect.

So that means that people who are doing research and don't know to dig under the surface might just "accept" it as fact. 

This completely goes against ALL the principles of genealogy.   Ancestry is being sloppy for the sake of marketing a new "feature" that has no checks and balances.

Updated DNA Ancestry - interesting

So, Ancestry has updated their regional reporting:

• 79% Irish
• 12% English
• 9% French (they didn't have French before)

At the 4th generation back, I have:

• 8 known Irish ancestors
• 2 suspected Irish ancestors (based on last name)
• 2 English ancestors
• 3 French/Québecois ancestors
• 1 unknown origin (Célina Boulé)

So that means:

• 79% Irish vs.  62 1/2%
• 12% English vs. 12 1/2%
• 9% French vs. 18 3/4%

OK - so the English is a great match.   I don't understand the under-reporting of the French because even though a FEW Québec relatives married English or Irish immigrants, they were mostly at the distant cousin level, and not among the direct ancestors, but there are a few Europeans in there (at the 1-2% level or so).

If Célina is French/Québecois, then that would make it 25% French (observed) vs. 9% in the DNA results.  On the other hand, if she is Irish (a famine refugee) then it's 67 3/4% Irish vs. 79% which is a better (but not complete) match.

The only other possibility is that one entire sub-branch of my family (at the 5th generation) is not Québecois but is Irish.   That doesn't seem possible: the other Québecois branch has a set of first-cousins (which is another oddity, but I'll leave that aside) at the 4th generation, which ONLY leaves the Guimond/Sévigny marriage.and there's nothing odd in that family record to suggest that anyone (specifically Elusippe Guimond) was illegitimate.

So we're back to trying to discern what the range of errors are in the reporting.