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

[mgeneas]

Have you submitted corrections to any of their transcriptions? Census etc?
I was recently contacted by someone with an interest in one of the corrections that I had made on Ancestry

[rosie99]

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

I thought GR was owned by Thomson's ie FindMyPast   

[LizzieW]

I used to save records to Shoebox but not relating to the particular family that I've just been contacted about. 

I've just looked at the Shoebox and can't see how that can be used by someone else to contact me.

Lizzie

[jon541]

I also have never had a tree on Ancestry but I used to get notifications when someone accessed an entry on the National Probate Calendar that I also had searched for/accessed (I say 'used to', I'd forgotten about these but received another one the other day).

Could that explain how this other individual realised that you were interested in the same ancestor?

[stanmapstone]

Are you in the Member Directory? http://community.ancestry.co.uk/directory/directory.aspx

Stan

[LizzieW]

Well, because I've not got a tree on Ancestry, the person who contacted me was not able to reply to my response    So guess what, he went on Genes Reunited instead and was able to contact me that way.  He said the reason he could contact me via Ancestry was because I'd made a correction to a census transcription on Ancestry.  I guess it must have been to do with the family he's researching.

So mystery solved and now I need to find out if the man he's doing the research for is just a friend, or a client.

Lizzie

[Rosinish]

Lizzie,

He seems very keen on the info. you may hold & has gone to a great length to contact you via other means.........good detective work 

Annie

[LizzieW]

He hasn't told me what he wants to know yet, apart from clarifying my 2 x g.grandfather's middle name, which is spelt wrong on a parish record on Familysearch.

[taffie01]

I have had similar contacts from people querying my relationship/interest in particular people following an amendment to transcriptions by me.

Often I have just spotted them and tried to be helpful . It is usually on the old census where neighbours are listed. Must admit though ,would have liked to be more helpful to the enquirers.

Fortunately here on rootschat we have lots of help.

Regarding the shoebox I have noticed things placed in mine unknown to me, must be the fairies!