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