I started recording data on My Heritage site as well and then some stranger who as far as I know is not connected to us other than through my niece's husband has copied the entire tree to his and when I wrote to him his reply was that I made him the manager of the site which is absolute nonsense. I know how frustrated I was so I can imagine how you must feel. Lynette On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Lyn <[email protected]> wrote: > I am with you all the way, Eira. > > I work on Family Tree Maker (Ancestry) which picks up and displays likely > matches to any open Trees on Ancestry. I have long since taken down what > appeared of my "Public Member Tree" on line and have "privatised" my work > since, as someone had picked up most of my tree and was adding their > "research" of Richardsons who were in no way connected to mine. However, I > still get the "hints" if something appears on a tree on the public members > trees. I have spent a lot of money and time on the Scotlandspeople pay per > view site digging up ancestors in my Richardson line and have managed to > get > right back to the earliest date of a 1659 baptism. Last year i had sent a > Tree Chart of all of this family line to a cousin of my late mother's, for > his 97th birthday. I had found a "hint" shortly after sending off the > chart > and on following it, I discovered someone who had appropriated what had > been > on line before I privatised. I contacted said person via Ancestry and > explained she had the wrong Elizabeth marrying into the family and asked if > the marriage certificate had been obtained. The response was that no she > hadn't, would probably do so but would first speak to her Granddad (naming > him) as he "had done a lot of research on the family". Her Granddad was > Mother's cousin!! I responded pointing out that I had just sent him the > Chart and requested that she not put it on line. Only to discover a few > days ago that a substantial part had appeared on line. But once again said > person had created a pickle; attaching, from Ancestry, another "ancestor" > who did not belong and included a half sibling as "Francis" on my > ggrandfather's generation who was actually listed on my tree with the > abbreviated name "Frank" correctly transcribed from the records I worked > on. > > What annoys me in all this is that I have a large file of biographical > narrative on every person on the Tree chart which I wanted to send to this > elderly cousin. I am now hesitating. I have no objection to sharing any > research with legit researchers and have pointed this out to said person. > But I have also told her that when I find something of interest on a Public > Member Tree I always contact the "owner" to ask the source of their > information and if I discover that our families are connected I then ask if > I may add the information to my research. > > Simple manners! And it has never failed for me, I share as generously when > I > am asked for info in the same way. > > Double GRRR!! > > Lyn > > Surrey > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: 05 March 2014 08:01 > To: [email protected] > Subject: SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE Digest, Vol 9, Issue 70 > > > > 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 >