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Census Lookups General Lookups => Census and Resource Discussion => Topic started by: newby dee on Monday 25 January 10 19:44 GMT (UK)
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i dont want to sound a miserable so n so
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how do i make my tree private on ancestry and not public...
i would happily share any info but when somebody comes along and copies all my hard work to their tree without even a thankyou it really gets my back up
sorry but that feels better already
dee :)
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Hi
Go to Family Trees drop down menu
Click manage tree in the tree you want to make private
Then in Tree Settings click Privacy settings
Jan
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Personally I am very happy to share with anyone the information I have found. Usually the only ones interested are part of the same family lines - its seems likely sharing with long distant relatives. I have found out a lot of relevant information from others via the various sites, especially Rootschat and Ancestry and the generosity of those contributing. I think it only fair that I contribute to the family history researchers out there any information that I find.
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Personally I am very happy to share with anyone the information I have found. Usually the only ones interested are part of the same family lines - its seems likely sharing with long distant relatives. I have found out a lot of relevant information from others via the various sites, especially Rootschat and Ancestry and the generosity of those contributing. I think it only fair that I contribute to the family history researchers out there any information that I find.
Yes, I feel the same. Yes, we do put in a lot of time into building our trees, but it's not all our work, is it ?
What about the volunteers that transcribed the BMD records, so we can search them ?
Or the Family History Societies who provide so many of the parish records both online and on CD ?
I'm very happy to share too :)
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ok my hands are slapped and maybe i was a little stroppy :)
and i never considered the above..
dee
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jan
thank you for info but after reading and considering above posts have decided to stay public after my little sulk :)
dee
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Yes, it goes two ways.
Am wary to 'go public ' on ancestry as it is so huge . I have had bad experience of grossly inaccurate linked info involving close relatives that has been totally falsely attached and is still perpetuated. One such appears to involve a 'professional' i.e fee charging searcher trawling for keen novice searchers in the States. Not everyone has scruples.Others just love 'collecting' rather than researching.
However I will happily share on enquiry and have the generosity of many to thank for my own progress.
Chris
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Personally I really do wish if people publish their trees on Ancestry they would make them available for anyone who wishes to see them. At the moment there are two people with "private" trees who have not bothered to reply even after I have sent several requests over time to view trees which list my known relatives.
I don't know which of the two is upsetting me most. One has lots of information (stories) on my Uncle's family, and the other has I believe at least four pictures of my GGGrandfather. I would love to know what he looked like!
I asked if this person (in the States) if he would privately email me the pictures if it wasn't acceptable for me to view his whole tree. No response!
Why do people bother with internet trees if they want them to be so strictly private??
People on Rootschat are so kind and helpful. Perhaps I am being silly and naive expecting others to be the same.
This is making me frankly miserable. :'(
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thats just bad manners , how disappointing for you crozier.....hopefully he is a minority
dee
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Personally I really do wish if people publish their trees on Ancestry they would make them available for anyone who wishes to see them. At the moment there are two people with "private" trees who have not bothered to reply even after I have sent several requests over time to view trees which list my known relatives.
I don't know which of the two is upsetting me most. One has lots of information (stories) on my Uncle's family, and the other has I believe at least four pictures of my GGGrandfather. I would love to know what he looked like!
I asked if this person (in the States) if he would privately email me the pictures if it wasn't acceptable for me to view his whole tree. No response!
Why do people bother with internet trees if they want them to be so strictly private??
People on Rootschat are so kind and helpful. Perhaps I am being silly and naive expecting others to be the same.
This is making me frankly miserable. :'(
For some people genealogy is a long-term obsession and for others it's a flash in the pan. I do know a couple of people who started researching their trees, and then dropped them like a hot brick when the going got tough.
I wouldn't take it personally :)
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My tree on Ancestry is private, but only because I don't want to make it public until I have verified all the information on it (with BCs, MCs, DCs, parish records, wills, etc.) There is already so much mis-information on Ancestry--ancestors who should have been born in Westmorland, England but are instead born in Westmorland, Jamaica! Ancestors who married years after they died!
(If someone asks to see my tree, I send them an invitation to view it, but with the caveat that not everything is verified.)
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The onus for verification is for the one receiving the information, not the one giving it :)
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my wife and my tree on ancestry are both private the main reason which might sound daft is years ago when i first started my mam said your great aunt would not like others to know all our buisnes (her grandfather was in a poorhouse i dont know if she knew about it) but now i have family who want to know just the juicy bits but they are not preparred to look about.
neil
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I've got two trees on Ancestry: one only recently public and one that will probably stay private for a while.
When the now-public one was under construction, it was just that, under construction, and I was learning the ropes. Once I felt confident enough and had corrected some newbie errors, I went public - including once being overly enthusiastic and following the wrong leads from several other trees. Going public was several weeks ago, but it's still indexed as a private tree, although it seems people can see it now if they click the right buttons.
The private one is a research tree, full of suppositions, experiments, notes and questions to myself, etc., and even has one deliberately false scenario. The false scenario was setting up a man of the same age with the same name in the same town as a cousin so that I had a place to put him. That way I could research everything about him to determine if he was an impediment to linking "my guy" as being my great-grandfather before he came to Canada. Turns out, they were different people.
(That goodness I eliminated the other guy. He married his own daughter's stepdaughter. His son-in-law was also his father-in-law! To make matters worse, the two men had married sisters about 15 years before. :o )
I have a note on my great-grandfather's profile on my public tree that research is being conducted on an English family and that that information is in a private tree. The note says that people can send me a message requesting an invitation, but I wanted to make sure that they were aware of the shortcomings of the research tree.
Carol
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Personally I am very happy to share with anyone the information I have found. Usually the only ones interested are part of the same family lines - its seems likely sharing with long distant relatives. I have found out a lot of relevant information from others via the various sites, especially Rootschat and Ancestry and the generosity of those contributing. I think it only fair that I contribute to the family history researchers out there any information that I find.
hello im like you i would willing share info,but unfortainly most of them are pay sites.so i am asking if there is any kind soul who could look at an ancerestry family tree for me,as there is just no way i could afford to bec0me a full member and look for myself. the name is gordon kelman maitland whyte,but only if they are already a member and dont have to spend there own money.thank you, marzy loo
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hello im like you i would willing share info,but unfortainly most of them are pay sites.so i am asking if there is any kind soul who could look at an ancerestry family tree for me,as there is just no way i could afford to bec0me a full member and look for myself. the name is gordon kelman maitland whyte,but only if they are already a member and dont have to spend there own money.thank you, marzy loo
Hi
The only tree I can see on there is a private one and therefore you would have to contact the person for information.
Why don't you start a thread on here and ask people to help you look for information?
Jan