Genealogy Chat

Julie,

Thanks for that!

I wrote to about 70 people on Ancestry, mostly in the USA, who have my ancestor in their trees stating he was born and died in the USA. Like a herd of sheep the other 69 have copied this incorrect information (this line was traced by Debretts so I know it is accurate).

I sent e-mails to these 70 people and only 3 people responded saying they would correct their information.

I know those Americans want to make a link with their ancestors in England but accuracy goes out of the window, one copies the other and it is like an infection that spreads. No point in having other peoples' ancestors in your tree.

Alison

Fran

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Yesterday at 15:22

I did take some advice today and hidden all my 'living' relations. They all still show up on my tree, but I hope they are hidden now from any other body who thinks they might be related.
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Hi Fran

Just to let you know that though you have hidden your living relatives they will still show up in the name search facility.....They are ONLY hidden when you open your tree to someone

Julie

There was a concern on GR by members that professional researchers were using the site to get information

LD you are so right about errors multiplying. Have a look on Ancestry. My sister appears on over a hundred trees, married to a man b in 1723. Since some of them also have our dad b1899 (correct) you would think they would have realised that it was wrong but they dont even look at their tree, or if they do they are too thick to realise it 'does not compute'.
Unfortunately when I contacted them on a free trial most believed their tree was correct and I was wrong.
Huia.

David - you're welcome. I thought perhaps that's what you had thought.

Gillian

David -

Those without full membership cannot view trees so I don't understand your comment that they are "just looking for free names".

They can, in fact, answer messages but cannot initiate a correspondence.

Gillian

I had a message yesterday asking to view my tree,no explanation as to who they thought the connection was, nothing,,just wanted to view it. i sent message back saying "and you are?" no response, ??

I have been really lucky with my hot matches etc.

Most of the people in my contacts are actually related somehow or other.

I did take some advice today and hidden all my 'living' relations. They all still show up on my tree, but I hope they are hidden now from any other body who thinks they might be related.

I've got a list a mile long of ignored hot matches tho'!

I understand what you both mean,I didn`t realise that could happen as I have a huge list of contacts who can see my tree anytime.Would it be better to negate the ones I don`t really need? Must say this site is invaluable as I have learned alot in the past few weeks.
Cheers to you both,must go and buy some porridge might help me brain cells!!!

Julie, I too am happy to share the information I have gathered with people that are genuinely connected to me tree, but it saddens me that some people want to aim for quantity rather than quality on their trees. Before I extract any information from another tree i double check the info as we all make mistakes (even the best of us) I have, however, seen a tree that contains several thousand names and is riddled with mistakes. So the people just collecting names are passing on errors which are just going to infect other trees.
I suppose my moral of the story is not to believe anything you see on another tree.
Phew need more porridge now.

Sorry but I have been a member for two years now and I thought that was the aim to interact with others with info to build ones tree.I am quite happy for people who have a relationship to my tree to copy my info into theirs, I have done the same. It is only since I found this board that I realise it isn`t supposed to work like that. I have used a lot of money looking at censuses and trawling through sites and I am always chuffed when I found out something I can let others know about. Surely isn`t that the reason to be a member of GR.or have I got the wrong end of the stick?
julie

Margaret, yes some of them have, but at least it stops anymore !

You are probably too late as they might have already copied the names onto their tree

It was easy really, that's stopped the name collectors !

Thanks both, will do that after my porridge !

You have to go into your messages, then click on contacts.

It will then show if they have access, or you access to theirs.

Christine

How do I check who has access to my tree ?