Hi all,

Can anyone with the knowledge advise us all how to protect our Legacy files 
from now on please. 

Cheers
Doug Tighe in marvellous Queensland

> On 6 Aug 2017, at 11:53, <johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au> 
> <johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 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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