Ha, I got a real laugh from your reply JK, I had exactly the same thing to me, I gave someone a lot of info, and expressly asked that it not go up on the web as I still needed to check a couple of things, but no, up it went, mistakes and all - so suffer in boots I say. I am more than happy to share, always have been, but I take a lot more care these days. Cheers Maree -----Original Message----- From: eng-surrey-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-surrey-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of J K gen Sent: Saturday, 29 September 2012 8:19 PM To: eng-surrey@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SRY] Family History Sites The danger of sharing ones information has been with us for longer than we have accessed Ancestry data. I sent my tree details to a one-namer before the web became the norm. All my information turned up on someone else's tree some years later. I then discovered that, without permission from me, the original one-namer had passed a complete gedcom to another researcher who had then published everything. The original one-namer's attitude was that it was important to share with everybody, and he saw no reason to contact the individuals who had provided him with their information. Part of the reason being, I guess, that he'd had a lot of data donations over the years and probably couldn't remember or work out who had given what. My grain of comfort is that one particular part of my tree details given to him is wrong - because I was using software with which I was unfamiliar and didn't enter it correctly. So I know who's pinched what! Doesn't help, and I cannot stop it. I also see details on other trees which have come from my tree on Ancestry - once or twice it has produced a bona fide relation, but mostly it hasn't. All I do is laugh - they have their trees wrong - I know mine is right. Hahahahah! JK *************************************** 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