Hi I also have some of my data on those sites, but just enough to help me make connections with others doing the same research. I put in a deliberate mistake or 2 when I use these open sites. I regularly receive mails from people pointing out tbese mistakes and by doing so I come into contact with relatives I often never knew about. Just last year alone I made contact with 4 2nd cousins and we had a very fruitfull exchange of info. Simone Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: Pat Frykberg <[email protected]> Date:04/03/2014 23:50 (GMT+02:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Rant... good on yer Eira. Obviously someone  very ignorant and GOK there are so many of them but they THINK they know better. Pat Frykberg -------------------------------------------------- From: "Eira Makepeace" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 9:46 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: [ZA-EC] Rant... > I want to rant about the importation  of my family data undertaken at no > little expense by me in London and elsewhere by people who have downloaded > my data from Geni and have placed it on My Heritage where for a fee I can > view my own research. I know the data is in the public domain and to that > extent does not belong to me but what I loath are the ignorant errors made > by those who download the data. For example, Quakers did not use the days > or months of the year as did the non-Quakers in England and could have > noted a birth as occurring on the  'third day of the seventh month' and > now > by the downloaders as the 3rd of July' whereas prior to 1752, the seventh > month was called September by non-Quakers. I would like these people to > care enough about genealogy to be aware that any second-hand data should > always be verified before posting online and not to pass off the research > as their own. > > Grr. > > Eira > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1432 / Virus Database: 3705/6652 - Release Date: 03/04/14 > ------------------------------- 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