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but from diaries, bibles,  and unpublished records that I found in private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





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