I wouldn't stop sharing even if someone wrote a book. what is sad is if they are taking all of their information off of the net then their could be alot of mistakes in their book. I look at it as we share somewhere along the line a book will be available with all the correct information and with references that maybe one of my children will find and find out their history. Isn't the reason most of us do research is so that a record will be keep for the future generations. We all have that one or more lines that we struggle with and through other's we maybe can find or work together I have to tell you if it wasn't for my grandparents, great grandparents sharing their information I wouldn't have what I have now. and with the help from many family members and friends on the net they helped fill in gaps and guided me to where I can find the information. So to you all thanks. I too have found alot of mistakes from people and alot of them are so willing to correct their information  and share theirs with me. Sharon Gallup On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:44:28 -0700, Glory Bee Richhart <glorybeeric@gmail.com> wrote: I did same, but no such luck.... > one put on ancestry and gave me some credit.. The other gave no credit, > added some faux info, but worse, wrote a book! So now I totally hesitate > to give any info much less post on any website . Ancestry, personal > website, genealogical list etc. > > gloria > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Sally Smith <sallys@citlink.net> wrote: > > > I understand fully what you are saying. I just found a new cousin and gave > > him some family group sheets. Even though I only gave him my parents names > > and dates, both my parents have died, he was able to get the whole line to > > my 6th great grandparents. He put them on his tree, on Ancestry, just like > > they were his family. I ask him to remove from his and tree and he did. > > > > Sally Smith > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > > Behalf Of Liz Engle > > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 5:20 PM > > To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [ROOTS-L] Ancestry, piracy, and so forth > > > > Hi everyone: > > > > I have been working on my family tree for over thirty years now, and have > > had a marvelous experience along the way, exploring many primary and > > secondary sources of information about relatives on both sides of my family > > tree. I have benefitted from the help of close, distant and shirt-tail > > relatives, and, in the process of sharing information, many of these people > > have become friends as well as relatives. I joined Ancestry a few years ago > > and stand in awe of the tremendous job they have done and are still doing > > in > > providing access to a multitude of genealogical resources worldwide. I > > have, > > however, never submitted my own family tree on Ancestry -- not from a > > desire > > to be reclusive but rather because I no longer have the time or energy to > > maintain it on line. It is all I can do to keep my Family Tree Maker file > > uptodate, and to edit, improve, arrange and store the vast supply of our > > family photographs beginning about 1850 and collected over many years. > > > > A few years ago one of my cousins, with whom I share info, asked if I > > minded > > if he "went on" Ancestry with his Family Tree, which included all the data > > I > > had given him as well as a goodly selection of photographs of our > > grandparents, Gr. Grandparents, and even some Gr. Gr.s. I agreed, seeing no > > harm in it at the time. > > > > Well, can you imagine what has happened? Recently I had occasion to look > > at the data my cousin had posted on my own grandmother, who I knew very > > well > > during the first 30 years of my life. Gran had married her childhood > > sweetheart, my grandfather, and together they had two children - my mother > > and my aunt - and no others, and they had remained married to each other > > for > > 60 years dying in their 80s within five weeks of each other. However, an > > "Anonymous Person" had picked up my grandmother, added to her life by > > giving > > her a second husband and several more children, and adding my grandmother's > > ancestral history to that of "Anonymous Person's." > > > > If that were not enough, several more "Anonymous Persons" have jumped on > > the bandwagon and have added my grandmother's rather unique ancestry to > > that > > of their own, and in addition have absconded with all the family portraits > > that my cousin had posted, and claiming them for their own families. And > > this is only one occasion - I have since found several more instances of > > genealogical piracy of data that originated with me. > > > > Well, I know - I can hear you laughing - and it is sort of funny. In the > > long run, it doesn't hurt my own record of our family which I am preparing > > for my kids - but it does cast doubt on the veracity of any info that I or > > any of the rest of you find on Ancestry today. In my own Family Tree Maker > > files I meticulously record all sources I have found, and if no > > verification > > can be found I make a note of that, also, as being merely "family > > speculation," or some such. > > > > So BE WARNED !!! 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