Hi folks I too have had the same happen to me as to Dave. I have a tree on the Genes site, and because it is there for anyone who may be interested I am more than happy to share any information, and lots of people have also shared their trees with me and I have met up with long lost cousins etc., what would otherwise be the point of having a tree for all to see. A couple of years back I emailed somebody who's tree had many of my close ancestors on it, after about an hour or so he removed access to it and sent me a further email saying "we have no connection". I presume he forgot to remove the tick box to view, realised his mistake and removed access to it, although he was happy enough to view mine. Some months later I contacted him again and got the same curt reply. I can only presume he had taken a look at my tree, added whatever he wanted to his own, but was unwilling to share the same with me. On another note, I have sometimes needed to correct other people's trees, for instance it was always believed that my ggrandfather was born in Ireland. I have proof that he was in fact born in France, and I pointed this out to two of my contacts quite a while ago. I notice that neither have amended their own tree to reflect this, so if somebody else copies it they will have the wrong information and it will get passed on and on. On the whole though, I find most people are very polite and courteous. Kind regards Lorraine

Talk about bad writing in census forms! There could be a whole lot of dubious, ay, incorrect info floating around out there based on what Lorraine writes. Incidentally, are you related to Trevor Furlong, one time CEO of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board - last time I saw him was about 20 years ago when he was visiting Montréal where I was then working. Bill in Nanaimo ----- Original Message ----- From: <LorraineFurlong@aol.com> To: <eng-liverpool@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:33 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Wrong Ancestors > Hi folks > > I too have had the same happen to me as to Dave. I have a tree on the > Genes site, and because it is there for anyone who may be interested I am > more > than happy to share any information, and lots of people have also shared > their trees with me and I have met up with long lost cousins etc., what > would > otherwise be the point of having a tree for all to see. A couple of years > back I emailed somebody who's tree had many of my close ancestors on it, > after about an hour or so he removed access to it and sent me a further > email saying "we have no connection". I presume he forgot to remove the > tick > box to view, realised his mistake and removed access to it, although he > was > happy enough to view mine. Some months later I contacted him again and > got the same curt reply. I can only presume he had taken a look at my > tree, > added whatever he wanted to his own, but was unwilling to share the same > with me. > > On another note, I have sometimes needed to correct other people's trees, > for instance it was always believed that my ggrandfather was born in > Ireland. I have proof that he was in fact born in France, and I pointed > this out > to two of my contacts quite a while ago. I notice that neither have > amended their own tree to reflect this, so if somebody else copies it > they will > have the wrong information and it will get passed on and on. > > On the whole though, I find most people are very polite and courteous. > > Kind regards > Lorraine > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > 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