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 -----Original Message----- From: bryant-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bryant-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Marsha Buck Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 1:13 AM To: bryant@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BRYANT] Ancestry Ancestry has a new online family tree program that searchers their records for you as you put in data. You can make you tree public or keep it private. I typed my parents names into my tree and it found their Social Security death info and census records right away. It even found death info for my GGgrandfather - something we had been looking for and hadn't been able to find. I have a bit of a problem with the One World Tree. It collects info from all the trees that are submitted and compiles them according to the majority of the information. Somehow it picked up my sister and her husband and showed them as being deceased when they weren't. All their personal information was there for the whole world to see - just because her husband had the same name as somebody who lived over 100 years ago. 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. It can still be viewed by those doing searches but it isn't added to One World Tree. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilyn Burgess" <stocker7@fairpoint.net> To: <rlbtwo@suddenlink.net>; <bryant@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:24 PM Subject: Re: [BRYANT] John & William Bryant/Montgomery Co. KY/1800-1804 > Have you done an exhaustive search online with something like > Ancestry.com? > Sometimes if you are patient, you can work your line back with census > records, of course the earliest census records you can get in the United > States is 1790. > My experience was that once I worked back even three or four generations, > I > could often connect with someone else's work. Ancestry.com has a section > called One World Tree which is a posting of others who have researched > similar lines. Ancestry.com is fairly expensive but even a short > subscription can be very productive. If you have any specific information > on TJ Bryant, such as spouse, birth date and death date, I can do a quick > search, but sometimes there are so many that it takes a long time to > locate > the one you need. There were more Bryant families in Georgia in 1880 than > any other state 3402. > > Certainly if you get a close match on DNA, you might get some help from > some > others who can fill in the blanks for you. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRYANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.39/687 - Release Date: 2/14/2007 4:17 PM