Yes this happened to us.? Someone saw a similar name and took our whole tree except for my great grandfather and attached it under hers.
I contacted her and asked questions.? I found information on her real connection and gave it to her.? I explained why we could not be on the same line and how the ages etc were impossible. She then removed it.? My cousins were very upset.? It happened after one had made our tree public.? Ancestry will do nothing.? It's up to you.? It was a different island and part of the name was different. My cousins tried to remove our trees then but Ancestry still keeps connections.? I hate the hints for this reason.? Everyone is not careful.? Also our pictures.? I have Ancestry but was reluctant to put our information out there. Good luck, Pat (Dutra/Vieira Anselmo) Nostrome -----Original Message----- From: Mary Bordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:30 am Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Problem (?) on ancestry.com Has anyone else had this experience on ancestry.com? I have a family tree online. When you bring up your, tree ancestry has links to "hints" for information that might apply to a person in the tree. This last time I found the "hints" were actually my ancestors that someone else had put in their tree. They didn't appear to be linked from my tree but the information was exactly as I have it. There is no way my ancestors can be part of this family (unless they are very distant cousins, of course). In fact, the way they are presented, some of the parents started having their family of six children when the mother was in her 40s and the father much older. It's so scrambled that I think the person even linked these same people to a previous generation. I'm tempted to just ignore the whole thing. But I wonder if I should contact the maintainer of that tree to see if they can verify the relationships? I'm thinking that people may see these "hints" and just automatically accept them. I know that some of the "hints" that have been presented to me are not even from the same island and even a similar name from the mainland. I must also add that the "hints" have provided useful in finding the people in census and other documents. Mary Bordi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
