For once i mostly i agree with Nick
i read so many posts about which is best ie FindMyPast, Genes, Ancestry etc, i actually subscribe to all of them,
and no matter how careful you are someone will abuse your generosity, kindness and it doesn't have to be from strangers, i was in contact with a cousin who until contact from genes had never spoken to before, he sent me massive emails asking this and that, yet somehow always avoided answering important questions from me, my Nan when she married put her Dads Brother as father, as she was under the legal age then, and her Dad was dead, so was done to avoid getting all kinds of documents, how ever many times i explained it to him, i found his tree on Ancestry and he had the brother as my Nans father, so obviously threw a whole line wrong, and checking for the same names on there i have found about 4 people have the same info' from him,
i found a personal photo i sent to him of my Nan and his Nan together with wrong tagged info, but what can you do? myself if i see a census form added to a tree i always try and check its correct rather than tag to my tree, if i can't i won't add it ,seems a silly thing to me to add a census from someone elses tree to yours, as the link when people look at someone elses tree then leads to how ever many people have added that census etc (hope that makes sense lol)
My tree on Ancestry is private unless i add people , but doesn't matter how much you trust someone, do you then know what they or the next person does with it, so you have to accept its public property and if you make sure yours is as correct as possible then hopefully you will be contacted by like minded people,
i have many of my cousins on my tree, as the information and links further back is amazing to find they lived in the same streets, before our families were even connected,
as many have said above best not to get to stressed about misinformation from other trees, if you find one genuine one with new information then it makes it worth while,
lol as an example for someone fishing i got this via genes and he had opened his tree, out of interest i clicked on it and he had 5 names himself his father his father etc and nothing else
so wouldn't be surprised if he sent loads like this to different people
"I have just spotted your entry and that for Richard, Mary, & Harriett.
I have a large database of ***** and connected names and if you would like to make contact maybe we can iterate to expand on your tree - no charge !! "
how honoured i was that he wasn't going to charge me
