No, there are many people who started and left their profile exactly at 1 (like my relative from the U.S.). 80% of the profiles are connected in one giant tree I think which is the purpose of WT. Besides volunteers are working on connecting the remaining ones like my own. Where do you get such a level of collaborative work? Andreas > On 25 Jul 2015, at 04:03, J. P. Gilliver (John) via <[email protected]> wrote: > > In message <[email protected]>, Andreas West > via <[email protected]> writes: > [] >> Unfortunately you have to have a birth date on every profile you >> upload. As a BK user I have almost all my "old" ancestors recorded >> correctly with the baptism date that was in the church book mentioned >> and mostly there is no birth date mentioned (pre 1795 in Germany). > > That's what's going to stop me bothering with it. > [] >> It now has 10+ million profiles from almost 300k researchers. > [] > So that's about 33 "profiles" per researcher; sounds suspiciously close > to the number of great-great-great-grandparents, assuming a "profile" > means a person - does it? > -- > J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf > > "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's > money." > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message