How is this thread pertinent to the Legacy Users' Group?
Mary Young

2009/11/4 William H. Boswell <whbosw...@gmail.com>:
> That's the problem I've had with Ancestry.com searches.  They'd turn up not
> only old information I posted to Rootsweb ten years ago, but my same people
> connected erroneously to their families when I knew they were not.
>
> I know many people have good intentions posting their information to
> internet sites, but there are others who don't.  I've had people ask me to
> correct my data when I had it publicly posted on Rootsweb's FreePages and I
> said I would if they could validate their data with sources.  They would not
> so I didn't change it because I had accurate sources and/or I knew the
> people they were connecting to.  Others I had given my information with
> sources to so I could prove their data was wrong and they didn't change it
> even though I knew for a fact they were not related to my direct line.
>
> Now I only work with my distant cousins who had contacted me through my
> former FreePages website because I had researched their distant lines when
> nobody else would.  It's odd that for all these years there was no
> information available on these people until I posted it all for free.  Now
> I'm finding it everywhere--information that did not come from the internet
> but from diaries, bibles,  and unpublished records that I found in private
> collections that aren't available anywhere else.  So how did these other
> people get this information?
>
> By the way, since Ancestry.com took over Rootsweb a few years ago they also
> purchased all of Rootsweb's old trees even ones that were supposed to have
> been deleted.  I found that out about a year ago when I did a search and
> found an old tree that I specifically had Rootsweb delete and they did, but
> Ancestry.com must have gotten from old backups and restored.  I would only
> remember this because I had mistakenly entered a comment about an ancestor
> being a drunk (which he was) and knew I had it deleted because his daughter
> was still alive and I never intended for that information to go public.
>
> So, I wouldn't put a lot of trust in what stays free at Rootsweb.
> Rootsweb's been around a lot longer than Ancestry.com and it's a shame they
> bought it out.  Ancestry.com has a profit motive while Rootsweb never did.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
> Behalf Of Mary Horner
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:03 PM
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Subject: [LegacyUG] Genealogy Pirates
>
>
> Jenny said 'I really don't care if people want to "pirate" any data I put on
> line. '
>
> The problem is Jenny; I was trying to find the connection between Canada and
> Ireland. There is one person who is very active on the message boards when I
> do searches for my direct line surname. I have discovered that he pirates
> others' information and plugs it into his imaginary tree. I worry that he is
> going to have the data so compromised that if I ever actually get over there
> to search, the truth will have been lost in the fiction. I see red ever time
> I find his name on a message board. I know I can't trust his info but what
> about all the poor people who don't know better?
> Mary



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