My complete tree pirated!

[Blue70]

Each to their own some people want to come to visit you while other people just want to share information about their roots. You have to be prepared for different reactions to sharing and contact. I've bought a lot of certificates and shared them by e-mail and hardly ever got any back and no one offered to share the cost. I don't share as much as I used to do LOL I wonder why?!


Blue

[geno500]

I never put my tree online,the problem is there are many people who just want to take any shortcut they can and grab parts of trees and add them to their own,many do not seem to care if the tree they have taken is correct,I also have tried in the past to tell people that they have made a mistake in their tree but it is useless people just do not want to know,this has happened more with computers and software ,it has become too easy for people ,they just do not want to find out things for themselves,in a few years it will be possible to put you name into a site and for a fee have your entire tree given to you,then this great hobby will be finished,I am just glad that I started years ago when you had to travel to local records to find the parish records,and have the thrill of seeing  something written about your family in the margin or at the bottom of the page which will never be recorded because it is not on the page proper

[sharonmx5]

I recently put mine as private because my father passed away 2 years ago so he now would automatically come up as no longer private and this worried me.

Can't believe people would do that though.

I had some problems on Ancestry even though my tree is private, therefore I have marked several of my immediate relatives who have passed away as still living, just to be on the safe side.

[wrjones]

I'm wondering whether all those who one can say apparently jealously guard their info,did all of their research themselves,or gained info like I have done in the past by spotting potential connections via other peoples Trees?

I have to ask quite pointedly;Why deny others opportunities that you yourself took advantage of?

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[jennifer c]

I have been all round the country in the last 25 years researching my tree, well before online trees.

I have only ever been taken advantage of, believe me I have been very generous with my time and information, which we many of us still do on this wonderful generous site.

Also, the person I contacted at the weekend who has my sister who is deceased showing on their tree has not had the courtesy or decency to come back to me to let me know how my family and all my sister's details appear on their tree.
Jennifer

[wrjones]

Jennifer your a little impatient in waiting for a reply off your contact.I've had replies on Genes Re-united six years after my sending the message!

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[groom]

I'm wondering whether all those who one can say apparently jealously guard their info,did all of their research themselves,or gained info like I have done in the past by spotting potential connections via other peoples Trees?

I have to ask quite pointedly;Why deny others opportunities that you yourself took advantage of?

Regards
William Russell Jones.

I don't think that it is as clear cut as that. I'm sure that no one one here is unwilling to share, otherwise they wouldn't belong to a forum like Rootschat, where people go out of their way to be helpful. What people do object to, is when others just take huge chunks of their trees including photographs and certificates, without asking or even checking if it is the correct family.

I'm afraid though that this will always happen, especially now that television programmes and adverts make this hobby look so easy. The latest advert states, "Just type in your name and your whole tree will appear." or words to that effect.

As has been said, the only way to be sure that this won't happen to you is to keep your tree private so that people have to ask before they can see it. Then just share the relevant branches.

[Blue70]

Ancestry helps people who are beginners or not very good at research to make progress by encouraging them to look at possible links on other trees. Information is shared on Ancestry it's not taken without permission. Ancestry is set up so that whatever you put on there is available to others unless you use the private setting. The reasons I have trees on Ancestry are so I have a better chance of connecting with other researchers, to discover missing information and to help other people in their research.


Blue

[BumbleB]

I have to agree with groom.  I'm not jealously guarding the information I have.  I'll share it with anyone, BUT I would like to be asked!!!  And I'll willingly help others - hence my using "Comments" in order to put right errors I see in other trees.