Yes I agree Anne! Why bother posting the info if you didn't expect ot swap information with Cousins? Harry in Oregon ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [KENT-ENG] Ancestry And oh what you have missed out on.  The "new" cousins who contact  you, who exchange info with you and help you as you help them extend the trees,  to more understand the people from whom you descend, to see pics of what they  looked like, of the places they lived and traveled to, of their progeny and how  these "new" cousins really don't differ too much from you and yours since we all  come from the same stock with the same mores and traditions. Annie in Minnesota In a message dated 6/29/2012 3:31:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  [email protected] writes: Did you  realise that when you create an Ancestry family tree, even if it's a  private tree, you "grant Ancestry a non-exclusive, transferable,  sublicenseable, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, publish,  distribute, provide access to and otherwise use such material, including,  hosting and access on co-branded services of that material, and to use the  data contained in that material as search results and to integrate that  data into the Service as Ancestry deems appropriate"? No wonder I´ve  never uploaded my family  tree!! Diane ------------------------------- To  unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to  [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes  in the subject and the body of the  message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

In reality both points of view are valid. Ancestry can be extremely useful but like any resource it needs to be used with discretion. There is no substitute for proper research but unfortunately too many people simply copy information without checking it's veracity. You may say that's their problem but it becomes everyone's problem when it is copied over and over again and becomes "fact". I've had some useful contacts from "cousins". I've also had some extremely unhelpful contacts from people who take the lazy approach. Family history is no different from any other area of history. It needs to be the subject of rigorous research and analysis if it's to be really useful. For my own part I upload my data to Ancestry in Gedcom and without images. I also keep it private. I've had too many bad experiences of people "borrowing" my data and then misinterpreting it. I'm more than happy to share my research with genuine researchers .... it isn't hard to type a message and in the end it results in a more meaningful and useful contact as opposed to just copying information verbatim without checking. There for what it's worth is my two bob's worth. Enjoy your day ...... Bryn (Mt. Victoria, NSW, Australia) On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Harry Vincett <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes I agree Anne! > Why bother posting the info if you didn't expect ot swap information with > Cousins? > Harry in Oregon > > > ________________________________ > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 11:44 PM > Subject: Re: [KENT-ENG] Ancestry > > And oh what you have missed out on. The "new" cousins who contact you, > who exchange info with you and help you as you help them extend the > trees, to > more understand the people from whom you descend, to see pics of what they > looked like, of the places they lived and traveled to, of their progeny and > how these "new" cousins really don't differ too much from you and yours > since we all come from the same stock with the same mores and traditions. > > Annie in Minnesota > > > In a message dated 6/29/2012 3:31:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Did you realise that when you create an Ancestry family tree, even if > it's a private tree, you "grant Ancestry a non-exclusive, > transferable, sublicenseable, royalty-free license to host, store, > copy, publish, distribute, provide access to and otherwise use such > material, including, hosting and access on co-branded services of that > material, and to use the data contained in that material as search > results and to integrate that data into the Service as Ancestry deems > appropriate"? > > No wonder I´ve never uploaded my family tree!! > > Diane > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject > and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >