Caroline, If you have the hint trees off and you don't take information from them, why do you need to contact anybody? After all, if your information is yours and you don't want anyone using your information, why on earth would you expect people to help you? In a message dated 10/12/2011 9:04:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, caroline.gurney@gmail.com writes: Good question, John. I don't often look at Ancestry trees. I have always used FTM with the hints for trees turned off. I don't take information from them. I do use them as a means to contact, and be contacted by, people researching the same lines. Caroline

Chasgustaf, I resent your insinuation that I am a selfish person who does not share with others. I have been researching for over 26 years, during which time I have freely shared my information and expertise through family history societies, correspondence, email, mailing lists, message boards, blogs and one to one help for people getting started in their genealogy research. Until my health became too poor, I gave lectures to a local family history group and refused all offers of payment. I have never said that I don't want anyone using my information. In the course of this thread I have several times mentioned my website: http://www.carosfamily.com, where I share information freely. I also have a blog where I do the same: http://cmgurney.blogspot.com. The links to those two sites have appeared under my signature on every post. I have already explained that I keep my Ancestry tree private to stop the "name collectors" who are also to be found on other large, popular sites such as Genes Reunited. I have personal experience of people copying data wholesale into completely unrelated trees on Ancestry and ignoring all requests to put things right. I have a cousin who was deeply distressed when her deceased father was linked into an unknown family and a family photograph attached to unrelated people. I have a 20th century teenager in my family who was married off to a woman who died 100 years ago. My tree is private to prevent people doing this with my data. To quote from Ancestry's guidance: "Even if you don't share your tree, other members can still learn if a specific deceased individual is in your tree, in addition to the birth year and birthplace of the person and your username (but no personal information about you). They can then contact you anonymously through the Connection Service on Ancestry.com sites to request more information." I regularly get contacted through the Connection Service and have provided significant help to a number of people, including giving several of them access to my private Ancestry tree. Caroline Gurney http://www.carosfamily.com http://cmgurney.blogspot.com On 13 October 2011 02:12, <Chasgustaf@aol.com> wrote: > Caroline, > >     If you have the hint trees off and you don't take  information from > them, why do you need to contact anybody? After all, if your  information is > yours and you don't want anyone using your information, why  on earth would > you expect people to help you? > > In a message dated 10/12/2011 9:04:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > caroline.gurney@gmail.com writes: > > Good  question, John. I don't often look at Ancestry trees. I have > always used  FTM with the hints for trees turned off. I don't take > information from  them. I do use them as a means to contact, and be > contacted by, people  researching the same  lines. > > Caroline

Caroline, I too am a "selfish person" I guess. I had a similar experience where someone advised me his wife was related to me and asked for some info. Of course i should have asked how she is rtelated to me but i didn't. I then gave hime a lot of my data which ended up published against my wishes. Thankfully my tree was young but now it is older and some of the data has changed and it is a lot larger. I too help when I can and share after knowing connections etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline Gurney" <caroline.gurney@gmail.com> To: <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:54 PM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] FTM 2012 People/Family Index Chasgustaf, I resent your insinuation that I am a selfish person who does not share with others. I have been researching for over 26 years, during which time I have freely shared my information and expertise through family history societies, correspondence, email, mailing lists, message boards, blogs and one to one help for people getting started in their genealogy research. Until my health became too poor, I gave lectures to a local family history group and refused all offers of payment. I have never said that I don't want anyone using my information. In the course of this thread I have several times mentioned my website: http://www.carosfamily.com, where I share information freely. I also have a blog where I do the same: http://cmgurney.blogspot.com. The links to those two sites have appeared under my signature on every post. I have already explained that I keep my Ancestry tree private to stop the "name collectors" who are also to be found on other large, popular sites such as Genes Reunited. I have personal experience of people copying data wholesale into completely unrelated trees on Ancestry and ignoring all requests to put things right. I have a cousin who was deeply distressed when her deceased father was linked into an unknown family and a family photograph attached to unrelated people. I have a 20th century teenager in my family who was married off to a woman who died 100 years ago. My tree is private to prevent people doing this with my data. To quote from Ancestry's guidance: "Even if you don't share your tree, other members can still learn if a specific deceased individual is in your tree, in addition to the birth year and birthplace of the person and your username (but no personal information about you). They can then contact you anonymously through the Connection Service on Ancestry.com sites to request more information." I regularly get contacted through the Connection Service and have provided significant help to a number of people, including giving several of them access to my private Ancestry tree. Caroline Gurney http://www.carosfamily.com http://cmgurney.blogspot.com On 13 October 2011 02:12, <Chasgustaf@aol.com> wrote: > Caroline, > > If you have the hint trees off and you don't take information from > them, why do you need to contact anybody? After all, if your information > is > yours and you don't want anyone using your information, why on earth would > you expect people to help you? > > In a message dated 10/12/2011 9:04:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > caroline.gurney@gmail.com writes: > > Good question, John. I don't often look at Ancestry trees. I have > always used FTM with the hints for trees turned off. I don't take > information from them. I do use them as a means to contact, and be > contacted by, people researching the same lines. > > Caroline ********************************** 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