I think you'll find that most of the trees have their origins in GEDCOMS downloaded from RootsWEB over the years and then posted on Ancestry and/or exchanged between users. -----Original Message----- From: Nivard Ovington <ovington1@sky.com> To: ftm-tech <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 6:20 am Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] FTM 2012 People/Family Index Hi Courtney That can't be true given the amount of identical trees that are on Ancestry There are many trees on there with blocks of exact same data some of which have identical errors in that suggest they are copied wholesale I am quite sure they are not typed in but copied in blocks Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Only the owner can download the whole tree. > > But any user can click to "save this person to my tree" > > Courtney ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Online Support for Family Tree Maker Version 16 and earlier http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ Version 2008 - 2011 http://ftm.custhelp.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Andy The ones I looked at appear to be identical branches but not the whole file, at least they vary by considerable amounts of entries , ie in the thousands Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > I think you'll find that most of the trees have their origins in GEDCOMS downloaded from RootsWEB > over the years and then posted on Ancestry and/or exchanged between users.