I think that default positions should always be for maximum privacy- not the
other way around.
Hi CE, I agree that other people’s websites are not sources but thought they
may cite sources which could be checked by me.
I’m glad scholars are checking primary sources. I saw on a documentary how
British kings or other royals or nobles sometimes changed official family trees
in order to justify or make claims to the throne for themselves or their
descendants.
I have no ancestors from what is now the UK and have found companies like
Ancestry quite useless for me. My ancestors are mostly peasants from rural
hamlets or villages in different obscure parts of continental Europe, although
a German branch from the time of the HRE included some nobles etc.
John
From: Maria Fraser
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2017 11:26 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Concerns about MyHeritage
Hi John
I think you have hit the nail on the head with everything you have described.
I emailed my concerns to the group on 8 July regarding My Heritage taking
control of information that I had entered into Legacy. I am very disappointed
that My Heritage has now taken over Legacy. I have tried several different
family tree programmes over the years and had hoped that Legacy was finally the
programme that I could continue to use without hesitation. I also thought that
no one else could copy my information without my permission - silly me.
Maria from NZ
On 6/08/2017 12:15 PM, johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au wrote:
I tried MyHeritage with the basic subscription and don’t trust it for various
reasons. It defaulted to automatic renewals every year and I don’t remember any
other options. It was extremely difficult to find out how to enter an end date
for the subscription because it was buried so deeply. From memory, I had to get
out of their website and search on Google to find out how to do it.
I entered some relatives on their Family Tree Builder. Even though I thought
I kept everything private, it ended up fully displayed on their website.
You can never relax while using MyHeritage and have to constantly be on
guard. Their technology/program seems to have “trip wires” everywhere to reset
everything to defaults that suit them.
Like others, I found MyHeritage users never provide sources. To contact them
or see their website, often requires paying the premium subscription.
On one occasion, I did manage to correspond with someone using MyHeritage,
but his information was full of errors and false presumptions. He claimed to be
an engineer!
I think MyHeritage will do everything they can to mine data from Legacy
users. Also, Legacy users will gradually have to pay for more and more features
and upgrades. As for cloud storage of family files- as soon as users get used
to it, there is little doubt that costs will be attached.
MyHeritage seems geared to obtaining your data for free, while making you pay
as much possible to search for any.
John
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