Hi all, I have put my PLOWRIGHT/HOOTON tree on Ancestry as it appears no one is interested in taking it up when my time comes. I wonder how many trees on Ancestry are there but the one that has compile the tree is not around anymore? At the moment it is "a private tree" however, it appears if you do the DNA thing your tree has to be "public" or it won't produce the connections one wishes to find. Is that the case? Linda BC Canada I am as mystified as you are Murray as to why so few reply I do know there was a problem with the Ancestry internal email system and people were never getting the messages, hence no replies I have done some tests at different times but they got through (I messaged known people and emailed to alert them to reply and also in reverse) But whether there is still a problem is hard to say Certainly its very strange that so few respond and its not just us as its been mentioned in several places previously A lot of the people are it seems accessing Ancestry on a regular basis or perhaps that triggering system is not working as it should and more people are not actually using Ancestry at all and the accounts we are contacting are dormant? Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)