I think you assume too much Nick 29 I thought the original post was really about insensitivity in someone inserting information about the very recently dead to me the very recently dead is anyone close to you that has died within your memory. Actually I never feel the need to visit Gene's whatever or Ancestry or to copy information from the Trees.
That's what the thread was originally about, until you turned it into a rant about people on Ancestry. Strange how you know so much about Ancestry and Genes, when you claim you never go there ?
As for Census and BMD there are many other sites that give far more interesting and accurate information about ones ancestors not forgetting c.d's etc. I find the actual act of just collecting information using such a narrow band rather boring and would sooner have a tree that relates directly to my ancestors than one that has hundred's of loosely connected relatives for which one has only a passing interest. It looks too statistical {to me!}. But that is my opinion and I do not expect anyone else to share this, but I really cannot understand the obsession to gather data that really has little interest to oneself or family. But also if this is what they want to do surely the onus should be with the responsibility to get it right and verify when the trees cross into into another's more direct line? Sometimes the only way to do this is via a baptism or a certificate or a burial record. Rootschat has listed many such links.
It has nothing to do with copyright just good taste and some understanding for the bereaved when the event is recent.
PK2
Well it's just as well that we don't all think the same as you, because otherwise we would have no information at all ! How do you think that any of the sites that allow internet searches actually get the dusty old census and church record books into a format that can be searched on a computer ? They're transcribed by an army of people whose interest in family history
extends beyond their own families, and they're often unpaid. The same goes for genealogy CDs - without the dedication of people in Family History Societies, they wouldn't exist. You think you're doing all your own research, when in fact you're tapping in to the work done by hundreds of other people, even if you don't crib off other people's trees.
As for the actual subject of this thread - it doesn't pay to generalise. My cousin very recently lost her father and her step-mother in the space of two weeks, and on both occasions she
immediately emailed me to ask me to change my family tree to show her relative's deaths. It affects different people in different ways.
