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 Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 4:24 PM To: 'Janet' ; aus-qld@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD] Ancestrys public trees 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 Sent: Sunday, 13 April 2014 3:44 PM To: aus-qld@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD] Ancestrys public trees >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 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 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

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not saying they couldn't do it though), but when there was no source citations and their research didn't include my unpublished updates (from sources not available on the Internet) then I stopped updating the published tree in its entirety.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