Ellie, My tree has been put on there several times without my knowledge. And, like you, I've been unable to correct it or remove it. Once it got put on there after I shared it with a family research group. For a while it displayed information on all the living people. Then ancestry did something so that information wouldn't show. But a lot of what the tree contained was my own speculations - not info I had proven. That's why I shared it with the research group - so we could compare information and figure out what was correct and what wasn't. Most recently, a couple of years ago I had been using their old family tree program so I could refer my family to it when they wanted information. Something happened to where I could no longer access the trees so I deleted them. Or I thought I had. I had four trees (one for each of my grandparents) and only three of them were deleted. The other one is still there - with me as the contact person with an old invalid e-mail address. I can't access it to make changes. I contacted Ancestry and they finally told me that trees containing invalid contact info are eventually removed. That's well and good, but before that happens that information is out there for the whole world to see and for other researchers to pass on. And to be melded into One World Tree. I hate to think of all the inaccurate information that has been passed on. > By Marsha > It also won't let me correct the spelling of my mother's name. It's good > for helping find other people working on the same lines but I > wouldn't trust the accuracy of the info at all. For this > reason, I am keeping my tree private. > > > Marsha, > I am Eleanor Bryant Prieskorn, and the same thing happened > to me, But it was unproven information that I was > listing to work on, and thought it was private and it was not. > I tried to make the correct changes and was unable to, > I wrote them (ancestry.com) and unless I had a pass word > I was unable to make changes. > My information is out there for all to see and > it is not correct, so anyone that has copied that information > has incorrect information and is passing it on to other > people as the correct. > Ancestry.com is very good in some aspect but the Trees are not > one of them, unless you know just what you are doing. > not their fault but the person that is using the on line program > to work on their family tree, they have hit a wrong button > and posted their work not knowing it. > Please use the ancestry.com trees as a guide not proven work. > I have posted the correct information on this site > and it is not much for I did find that my William Henry Bryant > b 03, Nov 1868 Indiana, was a Brown until after 1880 census, > the next time I picked him up was the 1900 census and he was a > Bryant, raised by Thomas Franklin Bryant of NH and his wife > Catherine Harty Bryant of Indiana. > Be careful what you take as proven. Use all information as a > guideline. I do not put my information on line now > unless proven. > Ellie