My complete tree pirated!

[Jool]

Here's Mundia's FAQ page which may help (although I am still baffled by it  )

http://www.mundia.com/gb/FAQ

[meekhcs]

Thanks for that Acinonyx. Not being technically "with it" I was worried I had missed something, even though I had ticked the privacy  and remove from search index boxes.

[meekhcs]

Ellarose

Sorry I got side tracked from your original post by the Mundia issue.

Sadly a lot of people are lazy and will not do their own research, so if you have a public tree you have to accept that it will possibly be abused.

Some people will  include incorrect info in their trees on purpose to deter cribbing, but this isn't really helpful because a person who purely copies is never going to check for accuracy. The result is a lot of public trees on ancestry are wrong.

The only way to stop your cousin is to make your tree private but of course the damage has been done. Many of us have learnt from bitter experience.

Ancestry will take the attitude that any public tree is fair game, after all they want us to share info.

Sally

[Guy Etchells]

You may also be interested to know that ALL trees (private and public) are available to be viewed on Ancestry's sister site Mundia.

FYI, that is not true. Only public trees are on Mundia. If you make your tree private it won't disappear instantaneously, so you have to wait a few weeks for both sites to update for your tree to disappear on Mundia.

FYI it was true but the loop-hole was rectified after a couple of months after complaints.
Cheers
Guy

[Ringrose]

Not only is the tree pirated but in many cases they are barking up the wrong tree.People don't like being told or they don't do anything about it.Had an argument about wrong info onmy grandmother which upset me because it made out that my aunt was born out of wedlock.I haven't put my tree online because I don't want all my names to goto someone who just collects and does no research themselves.
I know how annoyed you must be when you have taken time to research,money on Certs etc
Ringrose

[Flattybasher9]

Both Ancestry and Mundia have rules about copyright and privacy. Hold them to it.

Regards

Malky

[stevew101]

After researching my tree for the last 25 years, I make sure that it has never been posted on any internet site.  If I see that someone else is researching one of the lines, I will contact them, and if they seem genuine, will share information if it is of help to them. 

Even so, you cannot guarantee they will not make it public, and you cannot guarantee they will post the correct details. 

After many years of research, it does gripe when someone can cribb your work from the net in a few hours, and then claim it was "all their own work". 

Steve

[wrjones]

As ever there are two ways of looking at this.I've been researching for some ten years now and I would never have made as much progress as I have without access to open trees.In the same way I would never make my Tree private.The object of the exercise is to make connections,one with another not act as if we are guarding the secrets of the state!

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[BristolClark]

I've placed many hours and money into my tree, and have been grateful for the help and advice received from others whilst researching my ancestry, but I could never wish to overcome the annoyance of those who collect ancestry details by going private with my tree. What if I drop dead tomorrow and my tree is on private? All that time and effort and nobody, be it distant relatives or descendants, can benefit from it in the future. I look upon doing my ancestry as ensuring that the names and lives of my ancestors are remembered and free for others to continue in that remembrance.

Each to their own of course.