Not Everything You Read Is True

     I located my mother's obituary on Ancestry last year, not that I really needed to since I am the one who wrote it, but I was doing a search and it came up.  I was shocked to learn that Mother was "killed in action"!  Of course she wasn't, but there it was on the Ancestry website.  I wrote to them telling them the cause of death was in error, Mother passed away in a nursing home after a long illness.  Did they correct it?  No, they did not.  This is what it still looks like today, a year later:

Name of Deceased:	Lois C. Warner [User-submitted-comment]
Gender:	F (Female)
Age at Death:	84
Death Date:	15 Apr 2011
Cause of Death:	killed in action
Obituary Date:	17 Apr 2011
Newspaper Title:	MPNnow
Newspaper Location:	Rochester, NY, USA
Birth Date:	17 Dec 1926
Birth Place:	USA
Parents' Names:	Lewis and Grace (Galloway) Lash
Childrens' Names:	Ellen and Michael
Siblings' Names:	Kenneth and Llewellyn; Marion Smith of Colorado; Robert Lash of Phelps and Leslie Lash of Red Creek, N.Y; Winona

      You will notice the phrase, "User-submitted-comment", under Mother's name.  At least they allowed me to point out for other researchers how ludicrous it was to maintain that an 84 year old woman died in action.  It makes me wonder, how many other records are wrong and never get corrected, even when pointed out?  And this wasn't submitted by an individual, the following citation appears underneath the above entry:

"Source Information:  Ancestry.com. United States Obituary Collection [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: See newspaper information provided with each entry."

     Looks pretty official huh?  But incorrect.  By the way, the newspaper title is not MPNow, nor is it published in Rochester, the paper the obit appeared in was The Daily Messenger which is published in Canandaigua, NY.  Pretty sloppy work guys.