That's inexcusable. They are definitely for profit. But as you said, especially for someone who has to depend on the internet for data, there is a lot of good material. And you are correct, if something is taken from a tree it needs to be checked for sources. I really wish I had started just taking the data from the good sources and pasting it into Legacy instead of starting a tree. But it's late now. My subscription is up in a couple of months.
Personally I think it would be great to have a tree available on the web that others can access without having to pay. A well sourced tree since I hear that that attracts serious researchers interested in your family and can give you good contacts. And hopefully relatives who will ask you before stealing your photos, and then crediting you for them in their own work. >________________________________ > From: Syble Glasscock <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 7:53 AM >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from >Ancestry.com! > > > I have a subscription to ancestry.com, it's pretty esential to genealogy >research, but I have contacted them in the past about many photos that have >been taken from my personal website and added to various trees on their >website, ones that I've spent hours on repairing and a couple that were >professionally restored, they really don't care and actual seem to encourage >it. It seems fairly obvious that numbers are their interest for their >advertising. I've never had a tree on there and don't intend to, there are >MANY errors on those trees with little documentation. To me the big problem is >as said below "Bad data just being replicated". > >From: Larry McCumber <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 10:21 PM >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from >Ancestry.com! > > >> >>While it is true that ancestry.com is a "for profit" website, it does not >>necessarily follow that the problem is with ancestry.com. Family trees are >>submitted by subscribers to the site and are often incorrect. Bad data just >>being replicated, or "Garbage in, Garbage out". I have found just as much >>bad data at Family Search Library as at ancestry.com. Always check the data >>before you merge with your main family file/s. >> >> >>On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Marg Strong <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>Since I had only a small family file started, I downloaded an ancestry.com >>gedcom of the family tree I have on their site. I merged that with what I had >>(into a third family file so my original is still intact). >>> >>>Wondering if ancestry had caused part of the location problems, I downloaded >>>another gedcom and created a new file from it. The locations are a mess. >>> >>>The sources are way too basic and there are no details given, even though >>>they were there on the record. Only the ones I copied and pasted into Legacy >>>have the detail citation. >>> >>>I also have Family Tree Maker 12 on my computer just to keep my family file >>>synced. The details are in that program but do not get added to the gedcom >>>and are not imported into Legacy. This time I cleaned up the locations in >>>FTM with a feature they have for that purpose. It helped, but was far from perfect. Still a lot of work to do. >>> >>>I've read that ancestry.com is a for profit company and can't be depended on >>>for accurate sources. That seems to be true. 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