No Tree on Ancestry, yet I've just been contacted by someone!!

[LizzieW]

I've just had an e-mail advising me that someone on Ancestry has contacted me about my 2 x g.grandfather, on behalf of someone else who also has my 2 x g.grandfather as his 2 x g.grandfather. 

As I've not got a tree on Ancestry, how is possible to link me with anyone?   I've even done a search for myself in case someone has a tree with living people in it, but nothing comes up.

I am going to respond and ask the person how he managed to contact me.

Lizzie

ps.  Looking at the profile of the person who contacted me via Ancestry, I wonder if he is a Professional researcher.  He is apparently researching on behalf of his friend who lives in Bridlington, but he lives in Hertfordshire.

[Chilternbirder]

My first reaction from the thread title was that it is a run of the mill spam / phishing email and the fact that you actually have an Ancestry account is just coincidence. Don't click on anything inside the email to follow a link or respond.

Assuming that the message is Kosher (a big assumption) then there is no reason why somebody hasn't built a tree of descendants of a common ancestor. I don't have an Ancestry account so I don't know how he could have linked that to your Ancestry account.

[groom]

How odd, if you don't have a tree there I presume you just use Ancestry to look up records etc - so how could he know who your ancestor was? Did you ever have a tree on Mundia, as I believe they are now on Ancestry?

[Rosinish]

Incredible Lizzie,

Maybe someone from this thread, http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=429965.0 

Lucky you.......hardly anyone contacts me but then again I have minimal info. on ancestry........too time consuming, people helping themselves to info. with no interaction/contact.

Keep us informed of the outcome..........intriguing 

Annie

[*Sandra*]

Curious and puzzling ................................

Sandra

[LizzieW]

The only place I've ever had a tree was Genes Reunited and that's not up to date.  My main tree is kept private on Legacy.

I went onto Ancestry direct - not via the e-mail and found a message waiting for me, so I guess it's a genuine contact.  I've replied asking how he was able to contact me as I don't have a tree on Ancestry.

ammack - I wish.     I know all about the family in question, what I want is some psychic to give me information about my g.grandfather on another branch of my tree.  As I said, I don't expect anyone to contact me as I don't have a tree on Ancestry and as I have all the info about this particular family, it's not even as though I've contacted someone else about it.

I'll let you know what the man's response is. 

[StevieSteve]

Perhaps you've posted on their message boards?

[LizzieW]

I've only ever asked other people about someone I'm interested in.  I don't think that's what you call the message board is it?

If I don't get a response from the person who contacted me, I'll get in touch with Ancestry to find out what is going on.  The only other thing I could think of was that Ancestry has taken over Genes Reunited, but that doesn't seem to have happened - yet

[Marmalady]

Do you save records to your "Shoebox" on Ancestry or to your computer?

I get notifications about other people who have saved the same record as I have recently saved