Last night I marked my tree as private. At least this way people have to contact me for more information, and acknowledge in some small way the work I have done. I have taken the same course of action Apparently it can take a month to 'kick in' Ray On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Mark Feodoroff <mark@feodoroff.com> wrote: > I had my Ancestry tree publicly viewable to try and connect with others, > and > have them avoid some of the 'pain' I went through. I've seen many trees > where I doubt very much the 'researcher' did this work, as the work I did > was tedious and involved a lot of input from others and visits from various > sources around the globe (I'm not saying they couldn't do it though), but > when there was no source citations and their research didn't include my > unpublished updates (from sources not available on the Internet) then I > stopped updating the published tree in its entirety. > > Last night I marked my tree as private. At least this way people have to > contact me for more information, and acknowledge in some small way the work > I have done. > > -----Original Message----- > From: aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On > Behalf Of D. Carmichael > > > Sadly we live in an era of cut and paste 'genealogy', where errors multiply > exponentially attaining the status of 'facts'. > > Ancestry's advertising spin has a lot to answer for on this front. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenelle McCarrick > > Very true Janet, or they don't reply or correct anything. > Jenelle. > > -----Original Message----- > From: aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-qld-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On > Behalf Of Janet > > >From my experience as a volunteer at the local FHA, I now find that > >people > are not the slightest bit interested in research, only in having access to > Ancestry where they can copy other people's Trees, regardless of whether > they be correct or not. They only want to collect names and dates, and > depart an hour later saying they have done their Family Tree. > > Such a shame when research can be so rewarding. > Happy hunting > Janet > > > > > > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any > reply...... Thank you! > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-QLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >