As everyone else has said - check your own information. A lot of people just copy what others have put on line. Believe it or not I have seen people - on Ancestry - (more than one) purporting to have their family trees back to ADAM & EVE !!!!! They have my Tree included (wrongly) and I have difficulty getting further back than 1600's (the 1900's in some cases)!!! Pamela

I don't have a problem with Ancestry. Every month, I download my trees to a GEDcom file and put it into an external hard drive on my computer. Each new tree over rides the last one. It works for me. The problem I have is multiple trees on Ancestry ! I have one tree that has 4 other clones, all called the same so I never know when I am working on ! Ancestry says this happen when I change my password! I have started to download my trees, delete the ones on Ancestery and I will put them back with a new name. I am hopeing this works but just this past couple of weeks, I started a file for a friend of mine, left it for a couple of days and then went in to input some information, came out and found that Ancestry has called the tree Holden2. I now have a split tree. They can't explain it. I am up for renewal in April but I don't think I will bother, I will have downloaded all my trees by then. Pauline in Darwen, Lancashire

Some very interesting information in this topic, thank you. My so far unsolved question is what to do with my tree, or at least a lot of the branches, where there is now no-one to hand a lot of them on to. I don't have a tree online at all [although I've shared a lot of my info with others some of whom I know have put it on their Ancestry trees which I am quite happy about] but I would like my research to be available for when any future distance relatives reach one of my ancestors and I'm no longer around or compos mentis. I have an awful lot of paper files [which I am trying to reduce] and it seems a shame to waste what I've researched and the certificates I've paid for. I used to put postems on FreeBMD although I've lost track of where I got to with doing that. Any ideas gratefully received. Carol

I know folks who just like to get as many branches of as many families linked up as they possibly can. I don't see the point, if you're not related to them anyway, it's a waste of time and space. In my own family tree, I've come across online trees which are full of errors, marriages that never took place, birth years of people where no birth date or baptism can be found, people said to be children of wrong parents... and so on and so on. On a few occasions there were some things that proved helpful, but on the whole it was far from that. And when you find your tree and try to connect with the tree owner who either never bothers to respond or when they do they don't actually have any connection to your family at all, well, as I said, what's the point. All the best, Jon

I did have a gentleman send me a family tree back to Adam and eve, before computer email. Beautifully typed, came through the post, it takes the Irish McCauley family back abt 200 generations to Adam and Eve, so if anyone has any McCauleys out there..... (somewhere the daughters of Noah find their way to Ireland and marry Irish chieftains.) Marg -----Original Message----- From: Pamela Simmons via Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 9:26 PM To: 'Lynn Elves' ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [LAN] Online trees and hijacked info As everyone else has said - check your own information. A lot of people just copy what others have put on line. Believe it or not I have seen people - on Ancestry - (more than one) purporting to have their family trees back to ADAM & EVE !!!!! They have my Tree included (wrongly) and I have difficulty getting further back than 1600's (the 1900's in some cases)!!! Pamela :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No fees! The list's administrator can be contacted at [email protected] :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: ------------------------------- 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