Hi BJ These are fairly recent trees and have exactly the same family branches to the exact detail Having had a play this afternoon it appears this is being done by adding one person which gives the facility of adding all their children, wife and where parents details differ, those too I did a trial and its very easy to add many branches relatively quickly It also suggested others to add that had similar details although some were in fact quite different , it would be very easy to add the wrong ones I am aware of the various levels of access to Ancestry trees as I have all levels for different trees Not sure what an AMT is though? Ancestry Member Tree ? Whats the difference? I had to smile yesterday, looking at one tree it has one mans and his wife, among their children is the same wife as a second person Its rather too easy IMHO to add people but how they sort that one out I don't know Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Earlier trees on Ancestry.com did allow people to download GEDCOMs of > the trees. If this were done, the information could be incorporated > into anyone's tree. Many "harvesters" did exactly that and never > cleaned up the data or even attempted to merge duplicates. I've seen at > least one tree which has multiple entries of duplicate families and you > wouldn't believe the number of interrelationships one individual could > have. > > I think Ancestry.com is changing this. I know that in recent searches, > I have found no way of downloading a public tree from Ancestry.com. > Current trees can only be downloaded by the owner. The owner has much > more control over the current Ancestry.com trees or AMT's. They can

Again, I agree the quality is lacking in most trees. That is the reason I don't merge from the Trees. Occasionally, I will add a name and perhaps a birth or death date just to see whether that leads to hints to other more official sources. If they don't pan out I normally remove them after a while especially if I feel they conflict with my documented facts. I agree that you can add erroneous data rather quickly but I feel it has improved over the old method of downloading a GEDCOM file and importing that. The term AMT seems to be the accepted acronym for Ancestry.com Member Trees as compared to OWT for One World Trees and some of the others. Any tree without solid documentation is always suspect for its accuracy. It is the user's responsibility to verify the data. With AMTs just as it is with other data bases, garbage in is garbage out. BJ On 10/13/2011 12:07 PM, Nivard Ovington wrote: > Hi BJ > > These are fairly recent trees and have exactly the same family branches to the exact detail > > Having had a play this afternoon it appears this is being done by adding one person which gives the > facility of adding all their children, wife and where parents details differ, those too > > I did a trial and its very easy to add many branches relatively quickly > > It also suggested others to add that had similar details although some were in fact quite different > , it would be very easy to add the wrong ones > > I am aware of the various levels of access to Ancestry trees as I have all levels for different > trees > > Not sure what an AMT is though? Ancestry Member Tree ? > > Whats the difference? > > I had to smile yesterday, looking at one tree it has one mans and his wife, among their children is > the same wife as a second person > > Its rather too easy IMHO to add people but how they sort that one out I don't know > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > > >> Earlier trees on Ancestry.com did allow people to download GEDCOMs of >> the trees. If this were done, the information could be incorporated >> into anyone's tree. Many "harvesters" did exactly that and never >> cleaned up the data or even attempted to merge duplicates. I've seen at >> least one tree which has multiple entries of duplicate families and you >> wouldn't believe the number of interrelationships one individual could >> have. >> >> I think Ancestry.com is changing this. I know that in recent searches, >> I have found no way of downloading a public tree from Ancestry.com. >> Current trees can only be downloaded by the owner. The owner has much >> more control over the current Ancestry.com trees or AMT's. They can > ********************************** > 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 > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1831 / Virus Database: 2090/4549 - Release Date: 10/13/11 > >

Not sure what an AMT is though? Ancestry Member Tree? Correct John Donaldson