You are way off the mark with your comment that said The only thing "making" anyone hide their data is their own pure selfishness. OK so I will share How about the marriage of my GGGG GF showing who the witnesses the marriage . To share this is totally meaningless. Kerkelijk huwelijk Geulle 31-08-1761 Bruidegom Petrus Peeters Bruid Elizabetha Pochenerin Getuige bij het huwelijk Barbarâ Raeven Getuige bij het huwelijk Cornelio Bours You said it all with this statement that follows I What purpose does that serve.. Of course, every mistake I've ever made is all over the Internet Ancestry trees are terrible in my opinion................And one can hardly generate a pedigree or an ahnentafel from the data.....And a good report telling what generations of people did for a living, when they I immigrated, when they died, were they are buried, when there children were born, and containing obituaries and many other things relevant to to you can not be generated from an ancestry tree. . Trees without beef are not my cup of tea........unless you can do a family report as far back as you can go and put identifications on people GG Gf, GGG Aunt, 1C3R, etc etc you have nothing but names Different ways of doing things by people, it is what it is -----Original Message----- From: Dora Smith <[email protected]> To: Robert Pieterse <[email protected]>; nyc-roots <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Jun 20, 2015 9:27 pm Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] ancestry problem I'm sorry, why is either of you doing genealogy if you don't want to share? You don't own your genealogical data; it belongs to the family groups it concerns. Most of it is public information to begin with. The only thing "making" anyone hide their data is their own pure selfishness. Why are you even on lists like this, if this is your attititude toward working with other people. You sure don't want to share, nor help anyone! My web sites state that my data is public domain. Anyone can do anything they want with my information as long as they don't dare claim the right to restrict other people from copying it. Of course, every mistake I've ever made is all over the Internet. My favorite my Lowe relatives insisting that some piece of speculation I apparently did and have long forgotten is reality over the solid information I most recently uncovered and proved. Dora -----Original Message----- From: Robert Pieterse via Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 6:41 PM To: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] ancestry problem Ancestry is not the problem , it is because because you put you data out there and made it public............. Eventually LDS will pit the data on their trees also I for one never put a tree on line I see no point in it Gene software programs were developed for making trees and family reports They are far more comprehensive than putting a tree, on ancestry................. -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Kiersh via <[email protected]> To: Kim Hawkins Bonetti <[email protected]>; NYC Rootsweb <[email protected]>; nyc-roots <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Jun 20, 2015 7:16 pm Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] ancestry problem I've also got a problem with Ancestry although it's not quite the same issue as yours. A certain person who has a distant marriage relationship to my mother's side of the family has gone in and copied all information from my family trees including my father's side of the family back to my great grandparents. Even my maternal side is far removed from him. He's done this to two of my maternal cousins causing the three of us to make our trees private. Every time we followed a hint, his name popped up. Since he's not really knowledgeable about the family, he's now got dates and other facts wrong. We've contacted him several times and he doesn't care. He just adds people to his tree out to branches that end in outer space. I also contacted Ancestry about this person and they can't or won't do anything about this. I want to share and meet other people who are legitimately connected to my family but I won't make available my hard earned information with someone who has no business to it. Barbara Kiersh On Saturday, June 20, 2015 5:53 PM, Kim Hawkins Bonetti via <[email protected]> wrote: Not sure I should be posting this here but I know of another person who had a similar problem and wanted to pass this on. I was researching my husbands side of the family today on ancestry and came across another person with my last name in their tree. This person, who seems to be related to my husbands ex wife, has my hubbys date and place of birth, his picture, his marriage dates for both his ex and our marriage and none of it is private. I called ancestrys customer service and they looked into it and the owner of the tree has my husband and his mother both listed as deceased. They are both still living. I was told to email ancestry customer solutions and then they can contact the owner to have him fix this issue. I also sent a message to the tree owner and let him know of the issue. Ancestry said the tree owner is in strict violation of their rules. I'm still using the old version of ancestry and until today I didn't know you could list a living person as deceased. I have no idea where he got my husbands picture from, it was taken a few years ago and our facebook pages are private and that picture is not on his facebook page. I also don't know how he could have found our marriage date. We just got married 4 years ago. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up. I've never run across this before and was not happy. [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 ------------------------------- 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 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com