What an interesting message string. Thank you to all, I've learned a lot and it's also confirmed to me that doing my own checking is not be ultra-picky. I cannot recall anyone mentioning the Genes Reunited site, where there are tree owners claiming thousands of family connections. One in particular I recall had over 11,000 - by now that number may have doubled! If I was far ahead enough (and as knowledgeable as so many of you) in my research I know at least one branch of my tree would thoroughly confuse would be information copiers -- the person in bygone days who entered my maternal, grandmother's father's marriage information transposed two lines of information. So the wife is listed an another person! I recall a couple of years ago a message string about the Civilian Technical Corps; a subject on which I have some knowledge. At least one of the participants in the string was honest enough to say he was writing a book and asked me for more information. No, I was just too mean to share :) Regards, Veronica -----Original Message----- From: eng-surrey-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-surrey-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nivard Ovington Sent: Saturday, 29 September, 2012 6:19 AM To: eng-surrey@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SRY] Family History Sites Hi John The reason people put there data out there (on Ancestry or anywhere else) is to find connections If you hide everything from all others you are not likely to find as many connections as those that do However, no matter what you tell people to do you have no control once you pass data on, no amount of telling them or asking them not to will work, they will either ignore you or simply forget and do it anyway I have expressly requested that some data I supplied to another connected researcher not be put on the net, a couple of years later there it is But at the end of the day you and I don't own much of the data anyway All civil & religious events are public record Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)

I agree with most comments on this message, they are all familiar problems to me. I have never subscribed to Ancestry myself but I was included as a family member on a relative's subscription for a while. I then discovered just how much data that I had supplied to others researching the same name had been included on their trees and copied on from one to another without so much as a by your leave from me. Some of them had also included photos which I had sent them as copies from my great grandmother's photo album quite a long time ago now. I did actually ask them to remove these as I understand that Ancestry claim these as their own once they are posted on the site, and I did not wish this to happen. Until I was aware of what goes on on Ancestry I was very happy to share all data and photos, but like Maree I am very cautious now, and I find that very sad. One of the errors that I discovered was that someone I do not know has recorded on his tree that my father married my grandmother, I've learnt to shrug my shoulders about that now but at first I found it very offensive. I agree with Nivard that however much we complain it will do no good, but that does not make it right, Ancestry should provide a means for even those of us who do not subscribe to ask to have such errors removed. Pauline. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Veronica I Barr" <mordensurrey@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 2:42 PM To: <eng-surrey@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SRY] Family History Sites > What an interesting message string. Thank you to all, I've learned a lot > and it's also confirmed to me that doing my own checking is not be > ultra-picky. I cannot recall anyone mentioning the Genes Reunited site, > where there are tree owners claiming thousands of family connections. One > in particular I recall had over 11,000 - by now that number may have > doubled! > > If I was far ahead enough (and as knowledgeable as so many of you) in my > research I know at least one branch of my tree would thoroughly confuse > would be information copiers -- the person in bygone days who entered my > maternal, grandmother's father's marriage information transposed two lines > of information. So the wife is listed an another person! > > I recall a couple of years ago a message string about the Civilian > Technical > Corps; a subject on which I have some knowledge. At least one of the > participants in the string was honest enough to say he was writing a book > and asked me for more information. No, I was just too mean to share :) > > Regards, > Veronica > > -----Original Message----- > From: eng-surrey-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:eng-surrey-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nivard Ovington > Sent: Saturday, 29 September, 2012 6:19 AM > To: eng-surrey@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SRY] Family History Sites > > Hi John > > The reason people put there data out there (on Ancestry or anywhere > else) is to find connections > > If you hide everything from all others you are not likely to find as many > connections as those that do > > However, no matter what you tell people to do you have no control once you > pass data on, no amount of telling them or asking them not to will work, > they will either ignore you or simply forget and do it anyway > > I have expressly requested that some data I supplied to another connected > researcher not be put on the net, a couple of years later there it is > > But at the end of the day you and I don't own much of the data anyway > > All civil & religious events are public record > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** > superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: Eng-Surrey-admin@rootsweb.com. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SURREY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message