someone's pinched my Gt Grandma

[DORAN54]

I changed my Ancestry tree to Private simply because I was fed up with seeing that people had downloaded photos and information from it but never bothered to contact me.

I'm quite happy to share any of my finding with people who return the favour but why should I let others 'take' my things without so much as saying 'Hello- I think we are related'!

i agree with you people have copied my photo's etc from my tree onto their tree and in some of them it's obvious we are not related i sent a message to some of them asking why have you put MY  mother and other family members photo's onto your tree  we are not the same family i had no responce i found it upsetting and annoying some may say so what  but its my mum, my dad etc

[abelmabel]

I've only just joined Mundia as I saw a post about it on here the other day. I was amazed at the inaccuracy of the first tree I looked at ! I was quite surprised to find that my great grandfather appeared in different areas of the county on every Census even though I know he lived in the same house for 80 years. He managed to have a child several years after his death. And to cap it all he apparently died in 1926 which is strange considering my mum has pictures of him with her as a child and she wasn't born until 1950  
I haven't studied many other trees on there yet but it certainly seems that some people are just name collectors. The irony is that as they have obviously made a mistake with my G Grandfather so have the wrong parents for him that the rest of the tree is all wrong. I can't see any point in wasting the time on a tree which is not checked thoroughly. As this is all from a period of 1880- 1960 which is so well documented there is little excuse for making guesses.
I think I will keep my tree private when I finally get round to documenting properly.

[feesca1]

Hi there after coming across this post I thought I would have a look at the website and was also shocked to find also that my grandmothers 2nd husband had his details changed and also someone pinched a photo of my grandmother.  My grandmothers 2nd husband fathers details said he was born in America when all the time apart from about 6 months they lived in yorkshire the 6 months they were living in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
What gives people the right to take things without asking first.

[groom]

What gives people the right to take things without asking first.

I'm afraid it is the fact that they are on the internet for everyone to see, therefore people feel that they have a right to copy them. That is why I made sure my tree is private.

[sparrett]

I'm afraid it is the fact that they are on the internet for everyone to see, therefore people feel that they have a right to copy them. That is why I made sure my tree is private.

Have we considered though, that Rootschat is free for anyone who wishes to browse and easily searchable for that 'certain name' through goog..

Due to the excellence of the researchers here, it is likely that information gleaned will at least be close to correct, but it can easily be sliced and summarised and added to 'trees' willy-nilly.

It is a risk we take in pursuit of a hobby in the modern age

Sue

[bevj]

According to a tree on Ancestry my g-g-grandfather's mother was only one year old when she had him! 
Furthermore, according to the same tree, g-g-granddad (who was transported to Australia in 1846) is on all the England Censuses from 1841 to 1881 despite having married (1) in 1849 and (2) in 1868 both in Australia and having had 4 children all born in Oz between 1850 and 1875 
(Also they have wrong place of birth, and wrong siblings.)
This info has been copied onto no less than 6 other trees, just shows how much care some people take in checking their sources.

In a way I wish these people would copy my tree - at least then they wouldn't be spreading such rubbish.