I agree with most of your comments suzy. I've never been involved with ancestry and have been with my heritage for around 3 years now. If not for the records they have from all of us our family trees would barely exist, however we ALL feed my heritage, ancestry etc the info and their annual membership costs are quite high, notwithstanding the fact they direct debit our accounts, without any prior notice. Although I recently discovered I the 'small print' that is what they do, I don't know any other company who doesn't send an email just prior to deducting the funds. As far as dna and some other things you've mentioned, I haven't used any of that as yet. Cheers sue
On 17 Feb. 2018 10:55 am, "Gene Wheeler" <bridge...@gmail.com> wrote: > IMHO, I think many people, including me, are more than a bit concerned > about Legacy Family Tree (Millennia) hooking up with an organization that > functions the way MH does with their customer base. They certainly do NOT > measure up to Legacy in that regard. I'm worried that Legacy may eventually > be forced to operate the way that MH, Ancestry, and others do and lose one > of their current competitive advantages. > > Gene > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 5:16 PM, Susie Zada <sz...@zades.com.au> wrote: > >> I find it interesting that the majority of complaints are directed >> towards MyHeritage and not Ancestry, FindMyPast etc. who all use the same >> business practices and who also share information we provide to them (i.e. >> our own family trees). >> >> Well I for one WANT them to share my information - that's how I have made >> contact with other researchers. As a resident of Australia, I get a tad >> snitchy with the US-Centric sites that are pretty much useless for the >> majority of Australian research. >> >> BUT I have had huge success with my German records on MyHeritage, and >> also the huge number of smaller country newspapers (NSW, Australia) - these >> smaller local newspapers have wonderful information on local people that is >> not available through other resouces (TROVE / National Library Australia). >> I've lost count of the number of personal articles I have for my family >> thanks to MyHeritage. If you don't want to expand your own family history >> research, then don't subscribe to ANY of the major subscription sites then >> you won't have anything to complain about. >> >> Oh - apart from the records and newspaper articles I have found on >> MyHeritage I have had some terrific DNA matches on MyHeritage - moreso than >> the other companies! One great thing with DNA Matches - you know the other >> people at least have some interest in family history if they've bothered to >> pay for DNA tests! >> >> I won't apologise for being a fan of MyHeritage - and as all the major >> subs companies do the same, I don't get caught out paying for something I >> don't want - I read the fine print! >> >> Regards ... Susie Z >> >> February 17, 2018 8:30 AM, "Susan Pitcher" <gcm.sm...@gmail.com >> <%22susan%20pitcher%22%20%3cgcm.sm...@gmail.com%3E>> wrote: >> >> I may sound a little unreasonable because if not for my heritage etc, >> doing a family tree would be much more difficult, however it really annoys >> me that we, the members are actually providing the info which allows them >> to continue running their business and for that they charge us very high >> fees! >> On 16 Feb. 2018 11:31 pm, "tamaram1" <tamar...@cox.net> wrote: >> >> Thank you for the information, I will be very careful with my dealing with >> MyHeritage. I am a long time user of ancestry.com, family search.com, >> and findagrave.com, coming from rootsweb long ago. I have noticed a few >> times MyHeritage has sent things for me to fill in on my lineage on their >> site, I have answered yes, this is my family but I knew the records were >> indeed mine from other sites, I will be very careful to watch and make sure >> they are not charging me for my own records. >> >> >> -- >> >> LegacyUserGroup mailing list >> LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com >> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe >> http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com >> Archives at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >> >> > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/ > mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > >
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