Ancestry allows you to delete any tree you own. Of course, if your trees aren't private, people have already copied them 1000 times! Doesn't MyHeritage allow you to delete the trees you have posted? >From the various comments I've seen here and elsewhere, and from the information that MyHeritage is owned by a company in the Middle East, I've never been able to decide whether to subscribe or not. I don't know that I want to give them my credit card info. I take it that the owners of RootsMagic, Family Tree DNA, and 23andMe all do trust MyHeritage. Some people have said that my Heritage has taken their tree and posted it without their permission. I'm not sure how they can do that. I know that some people have copied my tree off my website and posted it there. I hardly think MyHeritage did it themselves though. It would be too much work for the company to surf the web in order to find trees that weren't posted on their website and post them there themselves! Carol Anne On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Dora Smith via <[email protected]> wrote: > Ancestry does the same thing, and what is more, they have all of my previous > versions as well, and some of them had errors. > > Dora > > -----Original Message----- > From: itsallrelatives via > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 7:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RMagic] FYI - My Heritage > > Some years ago I downloaded a "Free" Family Tree chart from My Heritage. > Because I liked the layout of the form, I transferred a gedcom of my > family into it. Now that Roots Magic has web hints from My Heritage, I > find that they have taken my information from my gedcom and posted it on > their website. They posted the exact birth dated of LIVING people. I > don't know how long it has been online as I only found out now that > Roots Magic links to it. They claim the information came from public > sources but I know that is not true because I had marked my direct line > with a tic mark, and they copied that too. They have take the > information down for living people once I notified them that is was > there, but they had no right to take the info to start with. I just hope > there was no damage done. > Just beware! > > YB > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > 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

If you have RootsMagic WebHints enabled for MyHeritage, every time you open a Pedigree View, Descendants View, or Family View, the vital facts for every person in that view is transmitted to MyHeritage. When you click on a lightbulb for a person and then one of the WebHint links, you will see (some of) your data about that person displayed on the left under "From your RootsMagic tree". That data persists on the MyHeritage server for months. I wonder what they might do with it - it represents a potentially big data mine for both the living and the dead! MyHeritage is an Israeli company but I see no reason to be any more suspicious of it than of one in your own country. Similarly of concern to those worried about privacy is the RootsMagic 7 Publish Online feature. It uploads your entire database to the MyRootsMagic.com server. Having the ability to "delete" a tree from any of these servers is no guarantee that the data has been deleted from all the places that it is stored. It might merely toggle a flag that controls whether the tree is made visible to the "owner". Tom > On Feb 27, 2015, at 11:42 PM, Carol Anne via <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ancestry allows you to delete any tree you own. Of course, if your > trees aren't private, people have already copied them 1000 times! > Doesn't MyHeritage allow you to delete the trees you have posted? > >> From the various comments I've seen here and elsewhere, and from the > information that MyHeritage is owned by a company in the Middle East, > I've never been able to decide whether to subscribe or not. I don't > know that I want to give them my credit card info. I take it that the > owners of RootsMagic, Family Tree DNA, and 23andMe all do trust > MyHeritage. > > Some people have said that my Heritage has taken their tree and posted > it without their permission. I'm not sure how they can do that. I know > that some people have copied my tree off my website and posted it > there. I hardly think MyHeritage did it themselves though. It would be > too much work for the company to surf the web in order to find trees > that weren't posted on their website and post them there themselves! > > Carol Anne > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Dora Smith via > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ancestry does the same thing, and what is more, they have all of my previous >> versions as well, and some of them had errors. >> >> Dora >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: itsallrelatives via >> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 7:25 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [RMagic] FYI - My Heritage >> >> Some years ago I downloaded a "Free" Family Tree chart from My Heritage. >> Because I liked the layout of the form, I transferred a gedcom of my >> family into it. Now that Roots Magic has web hints from My Heritage, I >> find that they have taken my information from my gedcom and posted it on >> their website. They posted the exact birth dated of LIVING people. I >> don't know how long it has been online as I only found out now that >> Roots Magic links to it. They claim the information came from public >> sources but I know that is not true because I had marked my direct line >> with a tic mark, and they copied that too. They have take the >> information down for living people once I notified them that is was >> there, but they had no right to take the info to start with. I just hope >> there was no damage done. >> Just beware! >> >> YB >> >> >> =================================== >> RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS >> WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: >> http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> >> >> =================================== >> RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS >> WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > 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