The Chinese have exceptionally long trees, if you can make it through the revolutions. Its not unheard of them to have hundreds of generations for families that were high in civil service/government. If you saw Finding Your Roots this year they presented Maya Lin with a chart that went through her 99th great-grandfather. I would not be surprised to hear of one of theirs that went through a thousand generations. IMO, I hate all of this disparaging of people's work (or lack therof). Part of the beauty of the Internet is how much we have learned that was wrong. It may or may not be their fault that its wrong. Some folks just don't get computers and how the tree sites work, and others have families who mistakenly wanted to be connected to a particular line for whatever reason when the truth was far from it. And we all make mistakes sometimes! No one is perfect. I had a lady write me on MyHeritage this week - I think she was surprised that I was so willing to admit I might just be wrong about the line. When she pointed out she had the correct information and my information was wrong, I was more than happy to hack the erroneous line out of my tree. I think I might have scared her a little by being so willing LOL - most people aren't that receptive I guess. Concetta On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Ralph Taylor via <[email protected]> wrote: > I had to chuckle on reading Marg's post about the gentleman whose tree went > back 200 generations to Adam and Eve. > > Now, genetic scientists have determined that there really were a paternal > and maternal most recent common ancestor to everyone in the world today. > They're known as "Y-DNA Adam" and "mitochondrial DNA Eve". But these people > lived many more than 200 generations ago and not at the same time. > > Y-Adam is estimated to have lived about 338,000 years ago and mt-Eve about > 140,000. Assuming an average of 35 years between generations, Y-Adam is > nearly 10,000 generations back. (35 may be an over-estimate on this time > scale, putting the number of generations at more than 10,000.) If mothers > were younger than fathers (say, 30 years per generation) that's 4,500+ > generations back to mt-Eve. > > Descent from Noah, BTW, is part of one Irish origin myth, though usually > it's the sons who get the credit. In this 11th-century myth, the Gaels > defeated the tribe of the goddess Dannu, who had previously conquered the > Fir Bolg and Formorian peoples. Fir Bolg ancestry traced through Agnoman. a > king of Scythia, to Noah. (It seems that hijacking ancestors isn't a new > phenomenon.) > > As a further aside, the Dannans seem to resemble fairies, living half in > the > mundane world and half in the supernatural. The Formorians resemble trolls > or Vikings, coming either from the sea or underground. . > > Has ANYONE made a credible tree going back thousands of generations? > -rt_/) > > ==================================== > From: "marg o'leary" <[email protected]> > > 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 > ==================================== > > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > 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 >

I don't know about the other sites but, when you sign up with Ancestry you AGree that what you 'post' becomes THEIR property; which is why you cannot download it. Always do your own line, Offline. If you wish to publish it, find another way. (Having said that, mine Is on Ancestry, because I didn't realise when I started oh so many years ago.) I still use it, but mainly for searches (and mostly privately, for other people who don't have access) Pen On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 3:23 AM, C. Phillipps via <[email protected]> wrote: > The Chinese have exceptionally long trees, if you can make it through the > revolutions. Its not unheard of them to have hundreds of generations for > families that were high in civil service/government. If you saw Finding > Your Roots this year they presented Maya Lin with a chart that went through > her 99th great-grandfather. I would not be surprised to hear of one of > theirs that went through a thousand generations. > > IMO, I hate all of this disparaging of people's work (or lack therof). Part > of the beauty of the Internet is how much we have learned that was wrong. > It may or may not be their fault that its wrong. Some folks just don't get > computers and how the tree sites work, and others have families who > mistakenly wanted to be connected to a particular line for whatever reason > when the truth was far from it. And we all make mistakes sometimes! No one > is perfect. > > I had a lady write me on MyHeritage this week - I think she was surprised > that I was so willing to admit I might just be wrong about the line. When > she pointed out she had the correct information and my information was > wrong, I was more than happy to hack the erroneous line out of my tree. I > think I might have scared her a little by being so willing LOL - most > people aren't that receptive I guess. > > Concetta > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Ralph Taylor via <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I had to chuckle on reading Marg's post about the gentleman whose tree > went > > back 200 generations to Adam and Eve. > > > > Now, genetic scientists have determined that there really were a paternal > > and maternal most recent common ancestor to everyone in the world today. > > They're known as "Y-DNA Adam" and "mitochondrial DNA Eve". But these > people > > lived many more than 200 generations ago and not at the same time. > > > > Y-Adam is estimated to have lived about 338,000 years ago and mt-Eve > about > > 140,000. Assuming an average of 35 years between generations, Y-Adam is > > nearly 10,000 generations back. (35 may be an over-estimate on this time > > scale, putting the number of generations at more than 10,000.) If mothers > > were younger than fathers (say, 30 years per generation) that's 4,500+ > > generations back to mt-Eve. > > > > Descent from Noah, BTW, is part of one Irish origin myth, though usually > > it's the sons who get the credit. In this 11th-century myth, the Gaels > > defeated the tribe of the goddess Dannu, who had previously conquered the > > Fir Bolg and Formorian peoples. Fir Bolg ancestry traced through > Agnoman. a > > king of Scythia, to Noah. (It seems that hijacking ancestors isn't a new > > phenomenon.) > > > > As a further aside, the Dannans seem to resemble fairies, living half in > > the > > mundane world and half in the supernatural. The Formorians resemble > trolls > > or Vikings, coming either from the sea or underground. . > > > > Has ANYONE made a credible tree going back thousands of generations? > > -rt_/) > > > > ==================================== > > From: "marg o'leary" <[email protected]> > > > > 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 > > ==================================== > > > > > > > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > > > 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 > > > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > 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 >

Hi Penny The terms and conditions are to cover themselves (ie Ancestry) and does not become "their" property Anything you upload to Ancestry can be as easily deleted by the user It can take around a month for it to be removed as they are done when they reindex the site Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 15/02/2016 03:35, Penny Trueman via wrote: > I don't know about the other sites but, when you sign up with Ancestry you > AGree that what you 'post' becomes THEIR property; which is why you cannot > download it. > Always do your own line, Offline. If you wish to publish it, find another > way. (Having said that, mine Is on Ancestry, because I didn't realise when > I started oh so many years ago.) > I still use it, but mainly for searches (and mostly privately, for other > people who don't have access) > Pen --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus