This lack of sourcing material on Ancestry is something which really irritates me. Recently I had contact with 4th cousins in Canada, which quite excited me until I looked at their tree on Ancestry. I was very surprised to find that comments had been added which were directly lifted from my website on that line of the family, and not acknowledged. This information and my comments come from primary research which could be done only in person in Ireland and had taken me many years and several trips there to accumulate, yet it was posted as the comments of the tree 'owner' - even though it is word for word my own work. I challenged the cousin who maintained that he had taken the comments from another tree on Ancestry but this is a straight out porky as it is an unusual name and there are no other trees on Ancestry for it. To me this is plain theft/dishonesty, and at the very least a lack of courtesy to the original researcher. A simple acknowledgment of the website where he found the information would be all I ask. I doubt that Ancestry has any facility to remove such material and perhaps wouldn't even want to do so. Just one of the joys of the internet I guess but very disappointing, especially as I have now ceased corresponding with that branch of the family. Regards, Patsy On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Jacqui Gee <geejacqui@clear.net.nz> wrote: > Like many others I tread carefully on Ancestry.Com and do not accept > anything as fact until I am able to validate or verify the information from > original documents and/or source, and establish a link as to how the > information got onto Ancestry.Com in the first place. As I do with any > "discoveries" made during my genealogy "detective" searches. > > Amazingly I am increasingly finding information that I have posted on > various rootsweb lists popping up as fact on Ancestry.Com and other > pay-to-view or free genealogy sites. For example, when making initial > queries and requests on rootsweb lists for assistance I have made reference > to various names, events, relationships, places, dates etc. that at the > time > of posting I thought were correct. Some of this information I have then > found to be incorrect as a consequence of assistance from other listers and > my further verified research into my family heritage. This is part of the > process of genealogical discovery, and a frequent occurrence when in > parishes of Scotland have many persons with the same surname and first > names > across generations. However, I have not placed the corrected information > for my family to the rootsweb list or as a reply to my original posting. > Like many others I have acknowledged to a list that a response to a quest > for help has been given, and thanked persons for their assistance. > > Unfortunately information on my original query to a rootsweb list, often > made some years ago, seems to have been uplifted and placed on Ancestry.Com > and pay-to-view or free sites as parts of publically listed family trees or > stand-alone information. No reference is made by these sites to the source > of the information or any disclaimer made to the accuracy of the > information. The problem I then have is that I cannot remove or correct > this incorrect information on these sites as I am not the user of the site > who placed it there, and in most cases the user cannot be contacted because > of the way the site is set up. In some cases I also do not want to pay a > subscription to join a site just to correct the information or access the > person responsible for placing it there. > > Thankfully my email address is given on my rootsweb postings to lists over > the years when another distant relative "goggles" a name in their quest for > discovering their heritage. Thankfully I still have the same email > address. > Once they have made contact with me I am able to provide corrections and > up-to-date information, as well as, establish links to new information on > family to explore. Alternatively they have made a query to the list that I > have posted information to in the past, and I have been able to make > contact > with them. Of course, the reciprocal applies when it is me "goggling" a > name. It is disappointing that those persons responsible for uplifting > incorrect information from my rootsweb listings have not done likewise. > > Jacqui Gee > Dunedin, New Zealand > > > > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >