How is this thread pertinent to the Legacy Users' Group? Mary Young
2009/11/4 William H. Boswell <whbosw...@gmail.com>: > That's the problem I've had with Ancestry.com searches. They'd turn up not > only old information I posted to Rootsweb ten years ago, but my same people > connected erroneously to their families when I knew they were not. > > I know many people have good intentions posting their information to > internet sites, but there are others who don't. I've had people ask me to > correct my data when I had it publicly posted on Rootsweb's FreePages and I > said I would if they could validate their data with sources. They would not > so I didn't change it because I had accurate sources and/or I knew the > people they were connecting to. Others I had given my information with > sources to so I could prove their data was wrong and they didn't change it > even though I knew for a fact they were not related to my direct line. > > Now I only work with my distant cousins who had contacted me through my > former FreePages website because I had researched their distant lines when > nobody else would. It's odd that for all these years there was no > information available on these people until I posted it all for free. Now > I'm finding it everywhere--information that did not come from the internet > but from diaries, bibles, and unpublished records that I found in private > collections that aren't available anywhere else. So how did these other > people get this information? > > By the way, since Ancestry.com took over Rootsweb a few years ago they also > purchased all of Rootsweb's old trees even ones that were supposed to have > been deleted. I found that out about a year ago when I did a search and > found an old tree that I specifically had Rootsweb delete and they did, but > Ancestry.com must have gotten from old backups and restored. I would only > remember this because I had mistakenly entered a comment about an ancestor > being a drunk (which he was) and knew I had it deleted because his daughter > was still alive and I never intended for that information to go public. > > So, I wouldn't put a lot of trust in what stays free at Rootsweb. > Rootsweb's been around a lot longer than Ancestry.com and it's a shame they > bought it out. Ancestry.com has a profit motive while Rootsweb never did. > > -----Original Message----- > From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on > Behalf Of Mary Horner > Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:03 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Genealogy Pirates > > > Jenny said 'I really don't care if people want to "pirate" any data I put on > line. ' > > The problem is Jenny; I was trying to find the connection between Canada and > Ireland. There is one person who is very active on the message boards when I > do searches for my direct line surname. I have discovered that he pirates > others' information and plugs it into his imaginary tree. I worry that he is > going to have the data so compromised that if I ever actually get over there > to search, the truth will have been lost in the fiction. I see red ever time > I find his name on a message board. I know I can't trust his info but what > about all the poor people who don't know better? > Mary Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
