This is still not trueMy trees are public and no one can change them  Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Get the new AOL app: mail.mobile.aol.com On Sunday, November 25, 2018, Joan Lince <joanklince@earthlink.net> wrote: I think it depends on whether you make your tree public or private. I'm not clear about the consequences of one's choices, and I was even less so at the time I posted the tree. What is very clear to me now is that additional information is now in the tree and there are errors in it that I couldn't possibly have made. Joan -----Original Message----- From: McDonald, J Douglas [mailto:jdmcdona@illinois.edu] Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2018 2:22 PM To: joanklince@earthlink.net; genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [DNA] Re: Linking DNA I don't see how opther people can edit you tree at Ancestry without you giving them permission. Nobody has even changed my trees. Doug McDonald -----Original Message----- From: Joan Lince <joanklince@earthlink.net> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2018 9:45 AM To: genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: [DNA] Re: Linking DNA Carol, you are so right, and you made your point even clearer with the example. I once put a tree on Ancestry and others edited in some wrong information. The tree is still there, with my family name in its title, but with the errors it not only gives wrong information but reflects badly on our carefully documented  research. I wish I could delete the whole tree. Joan b community _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

> My trees are public and no one can change them I don't think anyone can arbitrarily change someone else's Ancestry trees (now). But, if you invite someone into your tree and give them the right to edit your tree ... then ... they can edit your tree (and it's easy to forget who-all you've invited, over the years). Many folks (including me) are fairly cavalier about issuing invitations--if only to enable a friend/relative/guest to see living people. It's true it's a bit confusing, since there are a number of separate tree visibility attribute "switches" which can be toggled: public/private, visible-on-profile/invisible, indexed/non-indexed, explicitly-shared/not, and then when shared, -living-people-visible/not, and -with-editing-privileges/not. But, more-DNA-interestingly, I have a triangulated group around a 77-cM atDNA HIR which has over 40 people in it (each sharing more or less, but many in the 35cM+ range), almost none of whom I can find a relationship with/among. Has anyone seen any explanation for why/how this can happen?