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

I totally agree with you on being part of the solution and taking the offense..... However.. What I'm saying is.. People take what is on line as gospel. I think it's a step in the right direction. I had Ancestry for a few years for research....... I was lucky to have gotten it at a greatly reduced rate due to an error by the guy signing me up.... Unfortunately I had to let my subscription go. I hear a lot of people complaining about what happens to their stuff once its uploaded.... So that scares me. I don't know enough about it. But my question is...... If invited.... Do you have be subscribed to veiw it? I don't think so as I believe someone once sent me an invite but there again..... With anyone having the ability to upload their stuff (people LOVE seeing themselves online) its still a matter of proving it yourself. I am totally all for correct information getting out there... What I'm saying is.... Just on this list alone..... There has been bickering over whose source is a better one..... So I'm just saying..... In theory it sounds like a great plan.... But some people will STILL use the source information that works for them so be prepared that one person can't change the world.... But one person can possibly make a difference. Its worth a try....because right now..... Doing something positive is better than letting the weeds keep growing. I'm on board.... Just playing devil's advocate Janean Ray -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Bartlett Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 5:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] We have a golden opportunity tobuild 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 ------------------------------- 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