If you sync with MyHeritage and leave the setting to public, then you tree
would be visible.

 

If you sync with MyHeritage, but set your tree to private (as is my tree)
than no one will be able to see your data.

 

If you do not sync your tree to MyHeritage, no tree will be uploaded.

 

All the above are the same criteria as is found on Ancestry. I know, as I
have a private tree there too.

 

Denise

 

From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Anne Wiltshire
Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2017 7:22 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@Legacyusers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Fw: Concerns about MyHeritage

 

Hello all

 

Does My Heritage Privacy Policy for Legacy Family Tree (in the Help file)
still apply or will My Heritage be able to take all my tree onto their
website.

 

With thanks

 

Anne Wiltshire

Runaway Bay QLD Australia

 

From: CE WOOD 

Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2017 10:55 AM

To: Legacy User Group 

Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Concerns about MyHeritage

 

Their TreeBuilder syncs with their website. I do not use it, so know only
that.

 

Complete privacy on the website occurs ONLY if you set those options on your
website tree. If you have more than one tree loaded on your website, you
must set the privacy settings for each. Some people don't mind having people
find and/or view some of their trees.

 

You can even set your tree so that it cannot be found if someone searches.
You can do the same for any pictures or files you upload. If someone can't
find your info by searching, they cannot view it.

 

You can limit those who can find your site to only your list of "members",
and you can prevent "members" from changing anything on your site.

 

On far too many internet sites you find on the internet, people think a
source is someone else's website! With very, very few exceptions, you can
never trust anyone else's sources; you must go to their source yourself to
check.

 

My research is mainly medieval. My sources are original documents (primary
sources) or reliable secondary sources such as Complete Peerage, Domesday
Descendants, Domesday People, Settipani's tomes, etc.., but, with new
documents being discovered almost daily, especially in England, errors have
been found in many of those. There are several scholarly websites devoted
solely to the corrections in those.

 

MyHeritage is very far from perfect, but they have access to only your
information that you allow them.

 

 

CE 

 

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From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com
<mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> > on behalf of
johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au <mailto:johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au>
<johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au <mailto:johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au> >
Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2017 5:15 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@Legacyusers.com <mailto:LegacyUserGroup@Legacyusers.com>

Subject: [LegacyUG] Concerns about MyHeritage 

 

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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