You most certainly can make corrections and you can remove them. I would prefer to share information that is documented. and I do not mind it if someone uses it. It is simply a more modern version of putting it in a hardback book. No more or less accurate. Granted much of what is on there is pure garbage copied over and over, but if some verified information finds its way in the truth begins to out. If Ancestry would only tighten up on what is a "source" life would be better. I, for one, have a hard time accepting the King James Version as a source. Taking "my information" is something else again. If you do not want to give it away or share it, so be it. I have had the same experience about posting preliminary information and seeing it multiply. It is embarrassing, but if I had though about it I would have qualified my findings. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Mary Buchholz <[email protected]>wrote: > I agree. We use Ancestry as clues and some tines great documents and photos > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Bartlett <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 3:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] We have a golden opportunity to build > alastinglegacy for Northern Neck Families. > > > Janean, > > Some of what you point out may be true, but the other side of the coin is > that a lot of good research is on Ancestry, AND it has a good suite of > tools > that are integrated with teh trees to let you find records and attach > them > to your trees; add pictures of people and/or tombstones, etc. and add in > writen documents expaining what you've done and why. Of course there are > some who just mine the info and have no idea if it's right or wrong. But > we > can't stop that. What we can do, is put up well documented info - in > other > words: rather than duck or hide from the issues, go on the offensive and > post to the best of our ability. As a group, we would be open to peer > review, and could correct (and document) the info, just as has been > happening on this list. > > Let this group be part of the solution. > > > Jim Bartlett > > On 09/23/11, Janean Ray<[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a little suspicious of why anyone would want to upload their entire > database to places like ancestry and say world connect.... Nothing is > EVER > fully proven and therefore subject to just continually passing along > wrong > information. I have had people take my information and upload it to World > Connect and at this very minute my LIVING mother is listed on there. I > have > seen hoards of my information on there that someone got a hold of very > early > on in my research and put it on World Connect and its totally now wrong. > Ancesty I've heard then OWNS your information and people have tried to > remove it or make corrections and can't... I don't know the details > because > it didn't involve me but I've also seen people who "collect" names and > families..... And don't care where they get the information. 20+ thousand > people in a database seems a little suspicious to me. I've seen that on > World Connect and I've gone into people's pages...... And somehow always > seem to find my family attached to them. > Janean > > ------------------------------- > > [The entire original message is not included] > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >