Only the owner can download an Ancestry Member Tree. Judy in Ocala On Oct 12, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Caroline Gurney <caroline.gurney@gmail.com> wrote: > David, > > My Ancestry tree is *always* kept private in self defence against the > morons who hoover up everyone else's data and add it to their totally > unrelated lines. > > I share my data freely on my own website but people have to be > intelligent enough to use Google to find that and no downloading is > allowed. > > Caroline Gurney > > http://www.carosfamily.com > http://cmgurney.blogspot.com > > > On 12 October 2011 18:47, David C Abernathy <davidabernathy1@comcast.net> wrote: >> When I upload a FTM 2012 file to Ancestry.com, I make sure that at that time >> I select the manual syncing option. I also at that time make the tree >> "Private" until I have checked the online version to be in the manner that I >> want it to be. I also will do a couple of minor changes in the Ancestry >> Member Tree (AMT) and FTM and then do a manual sync. If it passes then I >> might make the AMT public. >> >> NOTE: also, I do NOT use very many media files as they are pretty useless >> outside of FTM, this goes for any program that uses media. >> >> Thanks, >> David C Abernathy > ********************************** > 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

Caroline, I have ask. Do you ever look at someone else's tree on Ancestry, and use the information you find there? I don't care if you copy it, link it, or just manually input it to your file on your computer. John & Kathleen On Oct 12, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Caroline Gurney <caroline.gurney@gmail.com> wrote: > David, > > My Ancestry tree is *always* kept private in self defence against the > morons who hoover up everyone else's data and add it to their totally > unrelated lines. > > I share my data freely on my own website but people have to be > intelligent enough to use Google to find that and no downloading is > allowed. > > Caroline Gurney > > http://www.carosfamily.com > http://cmgurney.blogspot.com

Hi Judy, The downloading comment was in reference to my own website. I use TNG which gives the option for people to download a GEDCOM. I have disabled that. Caroline On 12 October 2011 23:48, Judy in Ocala <treewright@gmail.com> wrote: > Only the owner can download an Ancestry Member Tree. > > Judy in Ocala > > On Oct 12, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Caroline Gurney <caroline.gurney@gmail.com> wrote: > >> David, >> >> My Ancestry tree is *always* kept private in self defence against the >> morons who hoover up everyone else's data and add it to their totally >> unrelated lines. >> >> I share my data freely on my own website but people have to be >> intelligent enough to use Google to find that and no downloading is >> allowed. >> >> Caroline Gurney >> >> http://www.carosfamily.com >> http://cmgurney.blogspot.com >> >> >> On 12 October 2011 18:47, David C Abernathy <davidabernathy1@comcast.net> wrote: >>> When I upload a FTM 2012 file to Ancestry.com, I make sure that at that time >>> I select the manual syncing option. I also at that time make the tree >>> "Private" until I have checked the online version to be in the manner that I >>> want it to be. I also will do a couple of minor changes in the Ancestry >>> Member Tree (AMT) and FTM and then do a manual sync. If it passes then I >>> might make the AMT public. >>> >>> NOTE: also, I do NOT use very many media files as they are pretty useless >>> outside of FTM, this goes for any program that uses media. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> David C Abernathy

Only the owner can download the whole tree. But any user can click to "save this person to my tree" Courtney sitnah@cox.net -------------------------------------------------- From: "Judy in Ocala" <treewright@gmail.com> > Only the owner can download an Ancestry Member Tree. > > Judy in Ocala > > On Oct 12, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Caroline Gurney <caroline.gurney@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> David, >> >> My Ancestry tree is *always* kept private in self defence against the >> morons who hoover up everyone else's data and add it to their totally >> unrelated lines. >> >> I share my data freely on my own website but people have to be >> intelligent enough to use Google to find that and no downloading is >> allowed. >>

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

many trees were submitted to many different web sites RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project at www.rootsweb.com was one common place where you could allow your total tree to be public and it was common to harvest vast amounts of genealogical data an example is one of my trees Entries: 1354 Updated: Tue Jan 22 13:37:47 2002 Contact: Jim Rader Index | Descendancy | Register | Pedigree | Ahnentafel | Download GEDCOM | Add Post-em that website is now part of the free side of ancestry and is at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1877221&id=I3 Jim Rader (916) 366-6833 jim@rader.org www.rader.org 5417 Whitehaven Way Antelope, CA 95843 -----Original Message----- From: Nivard Ovington Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 4:17 AM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com 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