"What makes these people tick" EGO?

[Heather D]

PS Hi Heather !

Hi Annie 

On topic ...

If I've misunderstood and someone has copied Sue's tree or added living relatives without permission, it's bad manners and I apologise .....but if they've simply been researching a branch themselves with only a distant connection, I'd say they had every right to do so?

Heather

[Gadget]

Hi Heather

Yes - I agree with you. I assumed from Sue's first posting that it had been separately researched and she was wondering why they were on the person's tree as they were only distantly related.

Lifting people's work is a very different matter.

GAdget 

[forthefamily]

I have seen at least seven different trees on Ancestry belonging to other people that share common ancestors with my OH. They are all doing their own research and it is interesting to see where their families branch off from ours.

One of the tree owners has a code for the last names of their tree members but Ancestry still matched birth date, death date etc to the tree I was working on so that's how I discovered it.

You have to be careful not to "accept" a match. I did this when I first started building my tree. The match was someone I had in my tree. By accepting this "match" I inadvertently also matched every one on the other tree which was not my intention. I ended up with this huge tree populated by people that weren't mine 

It took a lot of work to untangle the mess I made for myself    I'm sure this happens to people all the time but they may not know how to reverse the wrong entries or probably can't be bothered.

I also know someone this has happened to and they just abandoned the first tree and started again which I think was the wrong thing to do. It will leave the wrong impression for someone finding it later.

The most bizarre tree is one that has my OH's GG Grandfather...just him and no one else. I cannot fathom why they would even include him in their tree...I've looked and looked and just don't get it. The best part is this tree goes back to ancient Rome . I showed the OH and he was amazed because he didn't know he was related to one of the Caesars....

mab

[Tephra]

I can't even find my own people never mind anyone elses...........   


Barbara

[LoneyBones]

The best part is this tree goes back to ancient Rome

Now that's something I'd like to see. 
I've recently read about the family tree of the Chinese sage Confucius, which has been recognised by the Guinniss Book of records as the longest recorded genealogy.

I think the history of the Roman Empire alone would negate a successful genealogy.
But some people are very resourceful
Cheers,
Leonie.

[behindthefrogs]

I think the history of the Roman Empire alone would negate a successful genealogy.
Cheers,
Leonie.

I don't understand this statement.  I would have thought that the Roman naming rules which included three levels of names instead of the two which we use would aid genealogy. 

The preanomen which belonged to the individual tended to follow family preferences while the nomen identified the family and the cognomen the branch of the family.  As the cognomen was often the preanomen of a significant ancestor you can almost draw their trees from their names alone.

Of course some of the emperors like the Caesars broke the rules for reasons of pure vanity.

David

[Boongie Pam]

I got bored one day and got hold of all the parish records of a parish my family hailled from.  All the BMD!  With the census and these records I extended a branch well beyond any connected family to me.

Some of these folk aren't even blood related.

A descendent of those trees could be angry at me for publishing their tree.

But where does your tree finish and another start?  I've helped many people with those trees get started on their journey.  We would never have had contact if I didn't publish those extended trees.  I've had photos from them in return of graves, churches, pubs 

I would never publish info on the recerntly deceased or living as that is a different matter.  But I don't even mind if anyone takes my tree and uses it.  Why should I?  It's from publicly available info.  They'd be mad not to have their own journey through the ages - that's the fun bit.

Pam
 

[Jayson]

Forgive me, I know this may sound a bit daft but when I first started researching I didn't realise how many relations I actually had living.  I always thought of my family consisting only of parents, grandparents, uncles, etc.  Making contact with a distant cousin through genealogy was at first a real thrill, now of course it happens so regularly that it's become as mundane as the making of a pot of tea.

Now, I often research the individual histories of the people who married into my family, & what a pleasurable diversion it has proved to be even though they aren't strictly speaking my ancestors.

Jayson

[sue7]

Hello Everyone

Nice to read all the different points of view to my post,  and maybe I am being a little to sensitvie,  but researching is certainly different in my book to copying a whole bunch of names and sticking the lot in your tree,

Of course as we all research we come across ancestors that are ours in other trees,  the difference being you check and recheck data, 


Sue