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Rambling | Report | 2 Jul 2017 14:43 |
Even the best sourced trees can't know everything. I was exceptionally grateful for the lifetime's work on my dad's family and surname done by a gentleman who had gone to great lengths to source everything possible. What he and those who shared the same tree could not know is that my grandfather married bigamously under a different first name in an unlikely area. It was only my father's birth that could prove the marriage in retrospect so to speak. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 2 Jul 2017 12:55 |
Ancestry allows users multiple trees. This can be used in lots of ways. Versioning is one. Another is to split up a tree into sections with close family private and stuff from long ago left public. Despite the pain of name collectors I have found that this approach works fine and I have met some great people as a result. Plus some family mysteries solved and a few surprises! |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 2 Jul 2017 12:34 |
What most researchers think of as proof and what the name collectors consider proof may be two very different things. |
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Petef | Report | 2 Jul 2017 11:38 |
Thanks for all your replies, so many reasons why not to share information. I really don't understand name collectors? seems an odd thing to do. How ridiculous to assume two people with exactly the same name are the same person. Perhaps no one has ever told these so called "researchers" that you should never assume your findings are correct unless you can prove it to be so? |
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LaGooner | Report | 2 Jul 2017 09:14 |
I have a tree on here and on Ancestry. Both are private and there for ease of me storing information and checking and researching records. .I am quite willing to give information to anyone who has a definite close connection to me and who of course asks nicely . I too have been poached by name collectors in the past before getting my trees secured and one was very abusive when I asked her to delete my Dad's details which by the way she had totally wrong anyway. She told me it was me that had got his details wrong :-S :-S :-S. Yeah whatever :-P |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 2 Jul 2017 04:30 |
Like so many here, I do not open my tree on here or on ancestry to anyone. |
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Annx | Report | 1 Jul 2017 20:23 |
I think your last para is very true Nyx. They would invite criticism and possibly abuse if others found any information they were still confirming was incorrect so why risk sharing? Personally I put a lot of information I find out about the person's life, illness etc in the notes that I wouldn't want to share. |
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Rambling | Report | 1 Jul 2017 15:33 |
I'm always happy to share info, however not so happy to see it elsewhere online with mistakes added, for instance if I were to give the details of my great grand parents and then find them on another site added to an unconnected family who happen to have the same surname. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 1 Jul 2017 15:28 |
Pete, I no longer open my tree unless it is to cousins and other family members. |
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'Emma' | Report | 1 Jul 2017 15:07 |
Like Det I also do not open my tree, but if they can prove |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 1 Jul 2017 12:34 |
Ever heard of the term 'Name Collector'? |
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Petef | Report | 1 Jul 2017 12:03 |
Yes, I believe that is so, but why don't they want to share their information ? |
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Von | Report | 1 Jul 2017 11:42 |
I do believe that some people put their trees online because they do not have programmes on their computers to support a family tree. |
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Petef | Report | 1 Jul 2017 11:22 |
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