Uneasy about online tree

[Ecneps]

The only thing I really object to is finding my name and birth year on a public tree without my consent, perhaps I'm being too sensitive now I'm a little (?) over 40   

[KathMc]

The only thing I really object to is finding my name and birth year on a public tree without my consent, perhaps I'm being too sensitive now I'm a little (?) over 40   

It's not being too sensitive. Especially in this day and age, it's an invasion of privacy. I agree that this is the only thing I object to.

Kath

[Lydart]

ABSOLUTELY ... I object when 'my' info is in the public domain, as I don't have a web-site and it can only have come through Genes somehow ... thats the only public site I have put my info on ... and now I find living relatives are on One World Tree ... it is possible to email them and get names taken off, but its not easy. 

[Inchworm]

I had a person contact me through GR wanting to see my tree. He gave me access to his. After a few conversations I realised that he knew nothing about these ancestors that matched with mine. They were just names to him.
Well, when I viewed his tree it was massive !!!! All he was doing was pasting other peoples research into his tree that matched with his. There were also errors where he never checked any of the information.
Luckily I never let him view my tree. My ancestors are personal to me. I don't just collect names. I try and find out as much as I can about them.
If someone is  genuine I don't mind sharing, but I am not out to create the world biggest tree like he was. 

Inchworm 

[Tricia_2]

I agree. What's the point in a family tree, if the people on it are not family!?

[KathMc]

I agree. What's the point in a family tree, if the people on it are not family!?

I second that. I want to get to know my ancestors, not just tally them up.

Kath

[Inchworm]

Quite. The fun to me is to find out how my ancestors lived and what they were like. It brings them back to "life" in a rather uncanny way. Esp. when I found out about the exploits of my Grt. Grandfather Peveril Frost. Well, theres a story !!!
 

[Ecneps]

Well, don't leave us up in the air....... what's the story?

 

[Inchworm]

Well, having always been told that Peveril (b.1850)was a strict, smart, Victorian, respectable gentleman, it was a shock to find out that he had fifteen children with four different wives. The third he never married because he was already married to number two. He was on the fourth wife (my Grt. Grandmother) by the time he was thirty five.
They say never rely on family heresay. If only they all knew what a ladies man that he really was.