US Expat in Japan: WTF Ancestry.com?

Since I can't go home this summer or anytime soon, I thought it might be a good idea to research my roots and feel more connected to my people that way. It would also be cool to know at what point my ancestors weren't in America. Maybe those distant relatives of mine are similar to me in living so far from whatever home might look like.

Earlier this month in an attempt to entertain myself away from all the dangers at home and all the cold still prevalent in my current location, I took on the 2-week free trial of the most expensive ancestry.com package, excluding DNA. I then let myself have a few days of hyper focus, tearing through whatever rabbit holes I could find to hopefully locate my long lost ancestors in and out of America. 

Unfortunately, the vast majority of information on ancestry.com either ends when useful censuses end (1900) or is input by other humans, some of whom did decent research and some of whom just wrote some names down.

The algorithm or whatever it is at this website that actually tries to help piece together. Hints from your potential family tree does not account for dates at all apparently, and that is important when it starts suggesting time, travel or necrophilia might be a normal thing for people to engage in.

In several spots on both sides of my family tree, it is recommended to me that this person was born, lived, and died in a certain century...and then somehow, more than 50 years after their death, got married or filled out paperwork to prove that they're Native American or something similar.

At the end of the day you just can't trust data that you can't corroborate and there isn't enough information for my family on that website just yet. 

So it's back to feeling distant and removed. Such is expat life sometimes.