I have encountered similar experiences. I have tried to contact owners of "Personal" trees on half a dozen times and not received any replies. This has raised the same thoughts as yourself Rhonda as well as thinking What's the point of going to the effort to create a "Personal" tree that is kept private. Do I smell a rat ? Is there skullduggery afoot ? Dave D. > Hello Sue, > > I have had the same problem, I may be wrong however, I feel it is Ancestry > randomly matching people. I have noticed they have matched my family member > names in here in Australia, that are not correct. If I try to contact the > owner it is Aussie12345 or Aussie 2250 and so on. Oh and you cannot contact > them. They don't seem to be true family trees just Randomly chosen. My > grandfather born Coonamable, New South Wales 1896 died 1986 Sydney, New > South Wales. I have found my grandfathers birth matched a number of times, > with his death recorded as America, sometimes India. > > I have no idea why they do this. > > Rhonda Newell. > NSW > Australia. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sue Miller" <suemiller48@hotmail.com> > To: <eng-liverpool@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 11:44 PM > Subject: [ENG-LIV] Wrong ancestors on tree...why be so careless? > > > > Hello Listers > > > > While things have been a bit quiet I decided to spend some time on > Ancestry.co.uk and see who else was researching my family names and looked > at their public trees. > > > > I can't believe the number of people who have my grandparents, and some > great grandparents who have absolutely nothing to do with them on their > tree! I've found 5 in a few days. > > > > Why would you put someone in your tree when you don't have some real proof > they are your family? It just made me so cross. > > > > rant over > > > > Sue > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live Messenger: Celebrate 10 amazing years with free winks and > emoticons. > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/157562755/direct/01/ > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > Admin Message - List guidelines: > http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm > > The list admin can be contacted at > Eng-Liverpool-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-LIVERPOOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >