I was just discussing this with a "cousin" who I just found online. She says I now have a reputation as being "the authority" on the surname line she is related thru. Yikes ! I've been doing Genealogy for a long time, then along came computers and then Genealogy programs. Around 1996, it wasn't easy to post your tree online - it mostly required you to know something about html, or using a complicated program, and figuring out how to upload to a website, which most people didn't. So you had to learn a way to do it, which I did. I was amazed at how many people found me and wrote to me. They sent me Gedcoms & I sent them Gedcoms, by email or floppy disks. Then old manuscripts were scanned and exchanged, etc. They asked me to put their info online with mine, so I did. So now, although I am not the one who did most of the research, except on my direct line, I am rumored to be the "authority" because I was the "early bird" who put it online and "got us all together". Since I shared what I had, it is not surprising now to see multiple copies of the research I shared all over the web. FTMaker made it easy to merge files, some people submitted it to the disks FTMaker used to make, others shared it with others, Ancestry made it easy to put trees online, etc For an example of this Search Ancestry for Zacheus Baker You will find over 50 trees with Zachariah Zacheus Baker & Alcey Yalsie Rhoads, a lot having the exact info I have sent out. Or search for Sitnah Clifton - that info appears to have spread like wildfire, and now has some crazy stuff added to it in some of the files. One person I wrote to ask why she had Robert Tucker as the father of George Tucker Sr, and she answered that the date seemed right so she put him in. Cripes ! Courtney sitnah@cox.net -------------------------------------------------- From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington1@sky.com> > 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 >