Yes, the information is attached to Thomas R. Loveless. Thanks. Jane In a message dated 3/23/2011 5:33:25 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jimmie.ryan@verizon.net writes: That's just unfortunate then... I have noticed though in Ancestry Family Tree Software you can make a note private or public, so when you export/upload your GENCOM it makes them either or. Some have uploaded word or WordPerfect files, and even PDFs that also become "notes" or "stories." I hope you work this out; and the information is removed one way or the other. May I ask who this is attached to so I can check my file to insure I have not copied that "story" to my database, then I can propyl remove it to my private file on my hard drive. Good Luck..., and if you do not want to mention the name I will just go through all my "Lovelxxx" data and make sure the notes are removed to "private." Thanks again for bring this to our attention... Cuz Jimmie -----Original Message----- From: lovelace-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lovelace-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Treenutty@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 4:40 PM To: lovelace@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LL] personal information This personal information of my family showed up on a "story" connected to a tree. It would have been in the notes of the person who uploaded it. When he uploaded it he didn't designate the content and the notes do appear. I am not an invitee to this person's tree. I have a very limited tree on ancestry. Nothing of my own genealogy program has ever been uploaded by anyone in my family. To make matters more sad, the person who attached this information to ancestry is a member of the Lovelxxx list. He should have known better. I am working with Ancestry.com now to remedy the situation. They are very helpful. In a message dated 3/23/2011 3:34:46 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jimmie.ryan@verizon.net writes: The notes are only seen by the Editor (that includes if you assign that designation to anyone you invite), it does not show up for "contributors or other invitee." Also we need to remember that most of the family files were once rootsweb, so to blame Ancestry for what some of the old lists did years ago may be a bit inappropriate. We should also note that Ancestry has got to great lengths to increase the security of the trees and those that see them. If you feel you have sensitive information then you can make your tree "private," and nobody can see anything (it does thou defeat the purpose of finding others in your question to figure out those brick walls) yet that will keep any personal stuff from being exposed. We also must remember that in the beginning (Rootsweb, lists, or family sites) many did not know better and posted to the internet in hopes of finding family and fellow researchers, as I did and now see many from my original tree come back to me now, especially the wrong ones. I took down my ancestry file last year, and THANK YOU for reminding me I need to go through all 79,000 individuals that I uploaded to insure I have nobody's personal information in there. On the old rootsweb some believed that if they put their birth date in the death date it would protect them; unfortunately, when Ancestry converted these files it exposed all those individuals as they are noted as dead, and I can tell you there is not one Shipman in my database that did not have to be modified; so that is another surprise that some may find in the family tree's on ancestry. Jimmie Ryan -----Original Message----- From: lovelace-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lovelace-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lori Lovelace Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 5:58 AM To: lovelace@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LL] personal information Some people are just sloppy about protecting information on-line. I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they did not mean harm but were definitely careless and reckless. One thing Ancestry users need to pay attention to is Notes vs. Comments. Notes can only be seen by the owner of the tree and anyone with edit capabilities. Comments can be seen by anyone unless the comment is for a living person. But even then there are settings where this restriction can be relaxed. So if you add a comment about a living grandchild but it is attached to someone that is deceased it will be visible. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com 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 LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com 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 LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com 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 LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message