I haven't used ancestry.com much for research and I found it was complicated for sharing with family that don't speak English. I've use myheritage.com which I think is a subsidiary of ancesty.com. Has a change language option and great for sharing. As Cece pointed out make it private because the enthusiasm of neophytes - while wonderful - is often the creator of these problems. For the most part they have no idea how pain much painstaking research goes into the genealogical research, and for many there is simply no interest in continuing the research/tree. It's just the novelty. Myheritage.com send you smart matches, giving you the option to view the suggested matches and then accept or reject them. Not sure if it's the same on ancestry. Janette On 16-Jul-11, at 9:35 AM, deepsea06 wrote: > I have had very good luck with Ancestry.com, before I add any > suggestions I > do the research to verify that a link is valid. Of course alot of this > depends on where in the world you are researching and if there are > citations > and resource listed with a link. > > Lou > On Jul 16, 2011 12:14 PM, "Cece Camara" <cece@soccer4all.com> wrote: >> Luis/Pat, >> Sorta correct...but not the complete picture. If you are looking at >> the >> ancestry ONE WORLD TREE then you are correct...ancestry just pools >> all the >> family trees they can get their hands on and makes matches based on > certain >> criteria...it does a really poor job of this and I long ago gave up >> trying >> to get anything out of it as it is a complete mess. >> Then there are the FAMILY TREES - a completely different area - and a >> completely different problem...even bigger than the other if you >> ask me!! >> So here, people like you and I upload our trees to ancestry and we >> make > them >> public or private. Way back when I was a stupid little girl (ok >> maybe 5 or > 6 >> years ago!) I thought I was doing a great thing by making my tree >> public. >> Well every person that was brand new to genealogy saw a common name >> in my >> tree and decided it was their relative too...so they would download >> it to >> theirs and now parts of my tree are everywhere that they don't >> belong. At >> first I would write to each of them to try to find where our link > was...and >> then I finally realized after many times of doing this that there >> almost >> always was no link. So now it is a private tree - and people have >> to write >> to me to get further info. While we can blame all of the neophytes >> out >> there, still have to give ancestry most of the blame for this >> because they >> let it happen in the first place and there is now no way to reign >> in the >> beast now that it has been let loose. >> I would never spend a minute researching anything on the ancestry >> family >> trees or the one world tree. I am sure there is something good >> somewhere > in >> there if you look long and hard enough but really it is not worth >> the time >> of day for me! >> Cece >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: prt-madeira-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:prt-madeira-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Luis Beal >> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 9:57 AM >> To: prt-madeira@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [PT-MADEIRA] Ancestry.com >> >> Pat >> Ancestry uses some program that suggests connections between pedigree > lines >> which makes them look linked. I complained to them a few years ago >> when my >> line had people in it I had never heard of but they said they are >> just >> suggestions and they were not going to change it. I know they do >> not look >> like suggestions. Just want you to know that is Ancestry's fault >> and not > the >> people that posted their pedigree. >> Luis >> >> On Fri Jul 15th, 2011 11:34 PM PDT Pat Corbera wrote: >> >>> I have posted a portion of my ancestry on Ancestry.com public >>> family trees >> - the site name is: (The da Silva Se' Family Tree). >>> >>> I have found in the last week or so, that many of the sites that >>> appear on >> Ancestry.com have incorrectly linked with others. As we know not >> all da >> Silva; or de Silva etc. are related. >>> >>> Contacting these site owners has gone unanswered...it's very >>> frustrating, >> to see this and apparently no way to correct these errors...so do >> be very >> careful in taking what has been posted on-line as totally factual/ >> gospel. >>> >>> Have fun surf'n...I'll try this source for now...but if things do >>> not get >> better, I'll be back on with TribalPages... >>> >>> I know that Scot Austin is pleased with the on-line site that he > subscribes >> to, but I found that site a little too complicated for me...But >> I'll give > it >> a second look. >>> >>> I'm still trying to figure out a way of adding my pedigree >>> information to >> my own website at patriciajcorbera.com...any suggestions in how to >> do this >> would be greatly appreciated... >>> >>> Pat Silva Corbera >>> patriciajcorbera.com >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PRT-MADEIRA-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 >> PRT-MADEIRA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1516/3768 - Release Date: >> 07/16/11 >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRT-MADEIRA-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 PRT-MADEIRA-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message