Thanks, Pam. I didn't know I could post my tree for free on ancestry.com! Sure is a lot cheaper than $299. Fortunately, I hadn't heard that LDS had places to put trees and am glad I didn't. My Jewish ancestors, some of whom donated mucho money to construct synagogues, would be turning over in their graves if they found out they were now Mormon! - Shirl -
You can post your tree on Ancestry and make it private and you do not need to subscribe to it. LDS as Doug mentioned has an online tree also. But I wouldn't post it there in my opinion, because there is a possibility people in your tree will be baptized as Mormons. I once gave a distant relative info on my tree and he was Mormon and then baptized all my dead greats and grandfather as Mormon.Needless to say I was no happy since they were all Catholic and if they wanted to become Mormon I believe they would have done so while they were alive. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Shirl Sereque <[email protected]> wrote: Rod-My tree is on ancestry.com. I have noticed some others with a person from my family with children who are not affiliated with anyone in my tree. (I write and mention that they should look at my tree for the correct "kids".) I have also seen matches for my tree with the children born before the parents! (I point this out to them.) But...I do find a lot of "good stuff" out there especially with the more expensive membership fee. (My cousin and I split the cost.) >- Shirl - > > > >Hi Rod, > > >I never post my family tree online, but not for the usual privacy reason. It's >because my genealogy is so extensive that it conflicts with the fact I do this >professionally. I know other professionals who never post a single thing about >their own families, probably for the same reason. > > >For most people, posting online is a good idea, but there was some recent >discussion about how people take info from what you post and use it in ways >that are sometimes crazy - like when they are not even related. Then they mix >up people and have sons attached to the grandfather, or other such nonsense. > > >I don't know if Ancestry.com is the best place. I know it's one place with >some valuable tools for you. But you might have to be a member. And there is >the LDS genealogy website for this same purpose. > > >Others have their own websites and with Google searches, it's practically the >same as posting on the big websites. If you don't have a website and would >like to find a way to somehow fit this goal into how I present things on mine, >you're welcome to do it through me. There are things like my Ancestral Photo >Gallery where you could post some of the great pictures you mention and then >have a link to the genealogies of these people. I'm sure that would generate >interest and possible leads to viewers looking to find distant relations. You >could also post yourself as a genealogist for Velas, for instance, on my >Portuguese Genealogist Master List and again link the names to a face and to a >genealogy. > > >One thing to remember, whatever you post online will forever be out of your >control. People can take the info and do whatever they want with it. That's >the reason people often want to stay private, but it does go against the idea >of finding relatives. So it's something you have to balance in your own mind. > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and 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." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en.
