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