Re: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com
Kramer wrote Speaking of putting things on Ancestry.com, I was wondering what people's thoughts are. I personally don't want my info accessible to everyone in the world...at any point in the future. I just want it available to authentic relatives. I have benefited greatly from the generosity of others who make the results of their researches publicly available and am happy to return the favour by publishing my efforts. The more widely trees are disseminated, the more chances there are of authentic relatives finding each other. It's easy enough to withhold information of a private nature, such as details of living people. -- Jenny M Benson 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
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I prefer to withhold the data on living people due to some of the sensitivity of data when they may not be aware of the wide spread access that could be made. Just an opinion. Bob On Aug 30, 2009, at 4:08 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: Kramer wrote Speaking of putting things on Ancestry.com, I was wondering what people's thoughts are. I personally don't want my info accessible to everyone in the world...at any point in the future. I just want it available to authentic relatives. I have benefited greatly from the generosity of others who make the results of their researches publicly available and am happy to return the favour by publishing my efforts. The more widely trees are disseminated, the more chances there are of authentic relatives finding each other. It's easy enough to withhold information of a private nature, such as details of living people. -- Jenny M Benson 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 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com
At some point we need to post/share our data in a way that our relatives can find it - decades from now. What options are there? 1. Give them a printed report of the family history. Effective but instantly gives them the data as of that day only for one part of the family. 2. Give them a CD-ROM with our latest data. - Only effective for 2-3 years and only if they have the genealogy software to upload it to. 3. Use Ancestry? Yes - I have subscribed since the beginning. But - I don't expect my relatives to pay $155/year (or more) to keep up with it. Yes - I want my data open to everyone. That is - all of my data from 1900 and back. 4. I have been trying out the new FamilySearch - the linked family trees there are fantastic and best part - it is all free. So - the kids, grandkids - cousins that have zero interest now in genealogy - can find my data - decades from now - with the latest info as current as the last time I updated a record. I can put in every citation and everyone can see it anytime. What they can't see are the living relatives AND I never enter anyone from 1900 to the present. The terrific feature is that this site will sync with Legacy (coming soon) etc. So - I can keep a copy of the family tree from 1900 to the present on my laptop using Legacy it will automatically sync up with the family tree on FamilySearch.org from 1899 and back. I now only update the older records on new FamilySearch and update the recent family data on Legacy. I almost died last year - so I see this as my permanent method of keeping and passing on my family tree information. I understand that this newest FamilySearch feature will be released in early 2010. When I started researching in 1965 - the local genealogical society encouraged everyone to preserve their family tree data on typed charts. They long ago stopped doing that. I see FamilySearch as THE modern solution for preserving my data - putting it where relatives can find it. I have well over 80k names now and need a realistic way to back it all up and pass it on. For me - this combination of Legacy and the new FamilySearch.org is it. Tom thomas.j.k...@gmail.com On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Kramer kramer...@comcast.net wrote: Speaking of putting things on Ancestry.com, I was wondering what people's thoughts are. I personally don't want my info accessible to everyone in the world...at any point in the future. I just want it available to authentic relatives. There are ways to get the word out and then word offline with people. That's what I've done so far. However, I would like to her other opinions. I was just elected Family Historian for my mother-in-law's side of the family so I know that within the next year a family policy or something will come up among those I will be working with. My predecessor didn't have a cooperative working relationship in the way that I want to. Your thoughts are much appreciated. Thanks! Ellen On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: Jim Winfrey wrote My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? Well for a start I do my research all over the place using Ancestry, numerous other websites and all sorts places and people and use Legacy to record my findings! I will always do that. It's been a while since I uploaded anything to Ancestry (1), but I will get around to uploading more regularly one day. What I *won't* do is upload everything in my file (definitely not pictures and probably not Events, definitely not Research Notes) and nor will I change anything from within Ancestry. Basically, I will have a tree on Ancestry and from time to time I will exchange it for a newer one as I have added a few more names. (1) For Ancestry you could substitute Genes Reunited or any other similar site. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com
Tom, I don't want to start a war here, but does it matter to you if an LDS member takes your uploaded family tree and by proxy baptizes them as Mormon's? I know this happens because I toured an LDS temple before it was dedicated and the LDS official that led our tour showed us how it was done. I'm still on the fence about this - my Italian Catholic's now Italian Mormon's? I'm not sure how I feel about that. By the way, the temple was beautiful; I'm so glad I was able to see it. Ruth A. (Sconza Testa) Nerud baber...@worldnet.att.net - Original Message - From: Tom Kemp To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com At some point we need to post/share our data in a way that our relatives can find it - decades from now. What options are there? 1. Give them a printed report of the family history. Effective but instantly gives them the data as of that day only for one part of the family. 2. Give them a CD-ROM with our latest data. - Only effective for 2-3 years and only if they have the genealogy software to upload it to. 3. Use Ancestry? Yes - I have subscribed since the beginning. But - I don't expect my relatives to pay $155/year (or more) to keep up with it. Yes - I want my data open to everyone. That is - all of my data from 1900 and back. 4. I have been trying out the new FamilySearch - the linked family trees there are fantastic and best part - it is all free. So - the kids, grandkids - cousins that have zero interest now in genealogy - can find my data - decades from now - with the latest info as current as the last time I updated a record. I can put in every citation and everyone can see it anytime. What they can't see are the living relatives AND I never enter anyone from 1900 to the present. The terrific feature is that this site will sync with Legacy (coming soon) etc. So - I can keep a copy of the family tree from 1900 to the present on my laptop using Legacy it will automatically sync up with the family tree on FamilySearch.org from 1899 and back. I now only update the older records on new FamilySearch and update the recent family data on Legacy. I almost died last year - so I see this as my permanent method of keeping and passing on my family tree information. I understand that this newest FamilySearch feature will be released in early 2010. When I started researching in 1965 - the local genealogical society encouraged everyone to preserve their family tree data on typed charts. They long ago stopped doing that. I see FamilySearch as THE modern solution for preserving my data - putting it where relatives can find it. I have well over 80k names now and need a realistic way to back it all up and pass it on. For me - this combination of Legacy and the new FamilySearch.org is it. Tom thomas.j.k...@gmail.com On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Kramer kramer...@comcast.net wrote: Speaking of putting things on Ancestry.com, I was wondering what people's thoughts are. I personally don't want my info accessible to everyone in the world...at any point in the future. I just want it available to authentic relatives. There are ways to get the word out and then word offline with people. That's what I've done so far. However, I would like to her other opinions. I was just elected Family Historian for my mother-in-law's side of the family so I know that within the next year a family policy or something will come up among those I will be working with. My predecessor didn't have a cooperative working relationship in the way that I want to. Your thoughts are much appreciated. Thanks! Ellen On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: Jim Winfrey wrote My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? Well for a start I do my research all over the place using Ancestry, numerous other websites and all sorts places and people and use Legacy to record my findings! I will always do that. It's been a while since I uploaded anything to Ancestry (1), but I will get around to uploading more regularly one day. What I *won't* do is upload everything in my file (definitely not pictures and probably not Events, definitely not Research Notes) and nor will I change anything from within Ancestry. Basically, I will have a tree on Ancestry and from time to time I will exchange it for a newer one as I have added a few more names. (1) For Ancestry you could substitute Genes Reunited or any other similar site. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages
RE: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com
Tom, If I remember correctly it is still possible to have your tree put on to Roots Web when you load it into Ancestry and it will remain there for ever so your descendants will not have to pay a cent to view it. Or you can put it onto Roots Web directly free charge. Ron Ferguson _ Tutorials: Programme of adding videos commenced http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:40:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com From: thomas.j.k...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com At some point we need to post/share our data in a way that our relatives can find it - decades from now. What options are there? 1. Give them a printed report of the family history. Effective but instantly gives them the data as of that day only for one part of the family. 2. Give them a CD-ROM with our latest data. - Only effective for 2-3 years and only if they have the genealogy software to upload it to. 3. Use Ancestry? Yes - I have subscribed since the beginning. But - I don't expect my relatives to pay $155/year (or more) to keep up with it. Yes - I want my data open to everyone. That is - all of my data from 1900 and back. 4. I have been trying out the new FamilySearch - the linked family trees there are fantastic and best part - it is all free. So - the kids, grandkids - cousins that have zero interest now in genealogy - can find my data - decades from now - with the latest info as current as the last time I updated a record. I can put in every citation and everyone can see it anytime. What they can't see are the living relatives AND I never enter anyone from 1900 to the present. The terrific feature is that this site will sync with Legacy (coming soon) etc. So - I can keep a copy of the family tree from 1900 to the present on my laptop using Legacy it will automatically sync up with the family tree on FamilySearch.org from 1899 and back. I now only update the older records on new FamilySearch and update the recent family data on Legacy. I almost died last year - so I see this as my permanent method of keeping and passing on my family tree information. I understand that this newest FamilySearch feature will be released in early 2010. When I started researching in 1965 - the local genealogical society encouraged everyone to preserve their family tree data on typed charts. They long ago stopped doing that. I see FamilySearch as THE modern solution for preserving my data - putting it where relatives can find it. I have well over 80k names now and need a realistic way to back it all up and pass it on. For me - this combination of Legacy and the new FamilySearch.org is it. Tom thomas.j.k...@gmail.com On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Kramer wrote: Speaking of putting things on Ancestry.com, I was wondering what people's thoughts are. I personally don't want my info accessible to everyone in the world...at any point in the future. I just want it available to authentic relatives. There are ways to get the word out and then word offline with people. That's what I've done so far. However, I would like to her other opinions. I was just elected Family Historian for my mother-in-law's side of the family so I know that within the next year a family policy or something will come up among those I will be working with. My predecessor didn't have a cooperative working relationship in the way that I want to. Your thoughts are much appreciated. Thanks! Ellen On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: Jim Winfrey wrote My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? Well for a start I do my research all over the place using Ancestry, numerous other websites and all sorts places and people and use Legacy to record my findings! I will always do that. It's been a while since I uploaded anything to Ancestry (1), but I will get around to uploading more regularly one day. What I *won't* do is upload everything in my file (definitely not pictures and probably not Events, definitely not Research Notes) and nor will I change anything from within Ancestry. Basically, I will have a tree on Ancestry and from time to time I will exchange it for a newer one as I have added a few more names. (1) For Ancestry you could substitute Genes Reunited or any other similar site. -- Jenny M Benson
Re: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com
You will be missing a lot of information if you limit the viewers of your tree. Distant connections can be very valuable in your genealogical work. The upload cleans either all people not marked dead or everyone born after a certain date, dead or not. I just clean living. eliz On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Kramerkramer...@comcast.net wrote: Speaking of putting things on Ancestry.com, I was wondering what people's thoughts are. I personally don't want my info accessible to everyone in the world...at any point in the future. I just want it available to authentic relatives. There are ways to get the word out and then word offline with people. That's what I've done so far. However, I would like to her other opinions. I was just elected Family Historian for my mother-in-law's side of the family so I know that within the next year a family policy or something will come up among those I will be working with. My predecessor didn't have a cooperative working relationship in the way that I want to. Your thoughts are much appreciated. Thanks! Ellen On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: Jim Winfrey wrote My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? Well for a start I do my research all over the place using Ancestry, numerous other websites and all sorts places and people and use Legacy to record my findings! I will always do that. It's been a while since I uploaded anything to Ancestry (1), but I will get around to uploading more regularly one day. What I *won't* do is upload everything in my file (definitely not pictures and probably not Events, definitely not Research Notes) and nor will I change anything from within Ancestry. Basically, I will have a tree on Ancestry and from time to time I will exchange it for a newer one as I have added a few more names. (1) For Ancestry you could substitute Genes Reunited or any other similar site. -- Jenny M Benson 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 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 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
RE: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com
Hi Jim, You asked two questions, one about research and one about storing the information you find. My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? Definitely Ancestry. There is nothing like having your sources, complete with citation, automatically added to the records and in most cases hot linked to the source. Ancestry also offers many sources (of varying quality) besides those that appear in the hints. Of course, I still use many other sources for research. Some are online (including Ancestry), and some are the usual will and deed books, tax lists, etc. that are so necessary for accurate genealogies and will probably never be available online. Whether I initially put the information in Ancestry or Legacy, I need to create a source, and for me this is much easier in Legacy. Then I can apply that source to as many records as I need. If you create your own sources in Ancestry I'm pretty sure it also lets you look them up and apply them, but the few times I've tried I have not been successful. So I have valid information that contradicts all the trash that people import from OneWorldTree, but no way to show the source. I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? Just that way. Enter it in Legacy and again in Ancestry. At least that's always my intention. It is almost impossible to keep your information synchronized between Legacy and Ancestry. You lose something each way. I would like to keep my files in Ancestry for its ease of attaching many kinds of events and sources, and to connect with other researchers. I would like to have those same files in Legacy for reporting and file maintenance tools, and better source creation of non-Ancestry sources. I have opted to maintain Legacy as my definitive database. For one thing, that's what it is made for. Ancestry, frankly, is not. I also keep some information only in Legacy. Although Ancestry says it suppresses information for living people, I've seen otherwise, so for anyone who is a child in the 1930 census - and their descendants - I put the information mainly in Legacy. In real life I add new information to both programs and have not found a good way to keep them in sync. I suspect that if I will set aside a weekend and concentrate on learning more about the merge tool, I will at least be able to pull my Ancestry finds into Legacy and that will keep me happy. I just looked in the Help file and there is a lot of information on merging. (I have merged files before, but found it overwhelming to say the least.) I once downloaded an Ancestry family tree into Legacy so I could fix the locations. Just be aware that you cannot then upload those nice, clean, up-to-date files back to Ancestry. Ancestry has no merging at all, you will just duplicate everyone. One time I simply deleted the entire Ancestry family tree, and then recreated it by importing the gedcom from Legacy. Ancestry will populate the family tree, complete with events and sources on each record, but will not really see those events and sources. There will be no hotlinks from event to source. It will flash those green leaves at you until you give in and attach hundreds or thousands of hints (events and sources) again. And then manually delete the events AND sources it no longer recognizes. Use Ancestry and know it will never be current. Rely on Legacy (and learn to merge records effectively). --Thena -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Jim Winfrey Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 9:49 AM To: Legacy Users Group Subject: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com I recently uploaded my database to ancestry.com mainly so I could get other folks involved in finding links in my Winfrey studies. Instantly, ancestry starting showing me they had hints for practically everybody in my database. I don't particularly like their hints unless it is census data or public records I can verify. My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? Thanks, Jim 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 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:
RE: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com
There has been a firestorm in many forums about this as it is nothing more than blatant advertising. When you click on the Hint you are taken to a page that gives very little information about the particular hint and further clicking on any of the suggested hints will take you to a page inviting you to subscribe to Ancestry.com if you have not already. If you are not a subscriber, you are not allowed to see any specific information about the hint. There is nothing you can do about this, after all it is their server that you are using. Just learn to ignore it. Brian -Original Message- From: Jim Winfrey [mailto:jimwinf...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 6:49 AM To: Legacy Users Group Subject: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com I recently uploaded my database to ancestry.com mainly so I could get other folks involved in finding links in my Winfrey studies. Instantly, ancestry starting showing me they had hints for practically everybody in my database. I don't particularly like their hints unless it is census data or public records I can verify. My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? Thanks, Jim 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
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Jim, Legacy is my main place for entering all updates or corrections to my database. However, I then upload a copy of my family tree via GEDCOM to Rootsweb which is a subsidiary of Ancestry.com. Rootsweb's URL is: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ My tree will then also show up on Ancestry under their Family Trees-- Ancestry World Tree. Their hints will also show up and I can use them or ignore them as I wish. I prefer to have my tree on Rootsweb because it allows my tree to be seen by a larger audience then just that of Ancestry's paid subscription web site. And I like the idea of placing my tree on Rootsweb where it is free and anyone can access it. Cathy At 09:49 AM 8/29/2009 -0400, you wrote: I recently uploaded my database to ancestry.com mainly so I could get other folks involved in finding links in my Winfrey studies. Instantly, ancestry starting showing me they had hints for practically everybody in my database. I don't particularly like their hints unless it is census data or public records I can verify. My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? Thanks, Jim 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 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
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Jim Winfrey wrote My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? Well for a start I do my research all over the place using Ancestry, numerous other websites and all sorts places and people and use Legacy to record my findings! I will always do that. It's been a while since I uploaded anything to Ancestry (1), but I will get around to uploading more regularly one day. What I *won't* do is upload everything in my file (definitely not pictures and probably not Events, definitely not Research Notes) and nor will I change anything from within Ancestry. Basically, I will have a tree on Ancestry and from time to time I will exchange it for a newer one as I have added a few more names. (1) For Ancestry you could substitute Genes Reunited or any other similar site. -- Jenny M Benson 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
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Jim Winfrey wrote: I recently uploaded my database to ancestry.com mainly so I could get other folks involved in finding links in my Winfrey studies. Instantly, ancestry starting showing me they had hints for practically everybody in my database. I don't particularly like their hints unless it is census data or public records I can verify. My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? It's just a 'Come On' to try and get other people to subscribe. Do you really want Ancestry to make money from your research? Because, that's what it amounts to. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com
I guess it *is* an advertising hook for Ancestry non-members, but I have a membership in Ancestry (US only) and those annoying hints can sometimes be helpful, too. I connected with another relative who has a lovely well-documented tree with many photos out there on Ancestry, because I clicked on a promising hint. I doubt that I would have researched all the trees on Ancestry, looking for a match, on my own. At least not right now, maybe later on in my research. Quoting the OP to get this thread back on-topic: My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? I am both a new Legacy user and new Ancestry member. I did put my Legacy db out there on Ancestry -- I do lots of my research thru Ancestry, and I use the 'shoebox' feature on Ancestry to save possible research paths as well as documents I want to print and examine later on. To avoid double-entry, I enter all my new, documented finds *only* on my Legacy database. I let the Ancestry one slide. The features there are cool, but I want my up-to-the-minute good stuff on my own PC, in Legacy. I did consider simply uploading a new Legacy GEDCOM to Ancestry periodically, in order to keep the Ancestry file updated, but if you have attached photos or links to sources on the Ancestry file, they will be lost if you replace your original file. That's why there are so many seemingly-duplicated family trees on Ancestry. People keep uploading newer GEDCOMS and don't delete their older files. The real downer for me is when I see a really good hint and it turns out to be pointing to my OWN tree! Marilyn --- On Sat, 8/29/09, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote: From: Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 10:38 AM Jim Winfrey wrote: I recently uploaded my database to ancestry.com mainly so I could get other folks involved in finding links in my Winfrey studies. Instantly, ancestry starting showing me they had hints for practically everybody in my database. I don't particularly like their hints unless it is census data or public records I can verify. My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? It's just a 'Come On' to try and get other people to subscribe. Do you really want Ancestry to make money from your research? Because, that's what it amounts to. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. 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 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com
I do look at Ancestry, but no way do I take their word or information as guaranteed gospel. If I find Ancestry says my ancestor John Doe was born Jan 18, 1718, I do enter it in Legacy, but before I am sure of it, I look for another source that says the same thing. Robert At 2009-08-29 08:49 AM, you wrote: I recently uploaded my database to ancestry.com mainly so I could get other folks involved in finding links in my Winfrey studies. Instantly, ancestry starting showing me they had hints for practically everybody in my database. I don't particularly like their hints unless it is census data or public records I can verify. My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? Thanks, Jim 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com
Speaking of putting things on Ancestry.com, I was wondering what people's thoughts are. I personally don't want my info accessible to everyone in the world...at any point in the future. I just want it available to authentic relatives. There are ways to get the word out and then word offline with people. That's what I've done so far. However, I would like to her other opinions. I was just elected Family Historian for my mother-in-law's side of the family so I know that within the next year a family policy or something will come up among those I will be working with. My predecessor didn't have a cooperative working relationship in the way that I want to. Your thoughts are much appreciated. Thanks! Ellen On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: Jim Winfrey wrote My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? Well for a start I do my research all over the place using Ancestry, numerous other websites and all sorts places and people and use Legacy to record my findings! I will always do that. It's been a while since I uploaded anything to Ancestry (1), but I will get around to uploading more regularly one day. What I *won't* do is upload everything in my file (definitely not pictures and probably not Events, definitely not Research Notes) and nor will I change anything from within Ancestry. Basically, I will have a tree on Ancestry and from time to time I will exchange it for a newer one as I have added a few more names. (1) For Ancestry you could substitute Genes Reunited or any other similar site. -- Jenny M Benson 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 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
