Thanks, Alan. I hope someday to reach the place where I can do that. but I have a lot of work to do on my tree before I make it public. Just found another mistake I made (sister of the wife somehow was entered as the wife). I had to go through each child as well as the husband, delete the individual as the spouse/mother and enter the correct person for each member of the family. Hopefully no one took that information into their tree! Duplicating records is easy to do on Ancestry; not as major a mistake, but a nuisance.
I will keep this in mind for when the time comes. >________________________________ > From: Alan Pereira <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 4:27 AM >Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from >Ancestry.com! > > >You can publish on Rootsweb worldconnect free and the tree is freely available >to anyone. >The site is http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >On the left hand side of the page you will see Family trees (WorldConnect). >You can upload via gedcom but need to be careful in hiding information you >don't wish published e.g. Living individuals . The site has a place where you >can set limits for display and living persons. > >I suppress source repositories as part of the gedcom output from Legacy as >this contains names and addresses of sources, which includes living >relatives. I also suppress all notes as I can't be sure that some may contain >references to living individuals. (It means if fellow genealogists want to >copy my research, they will have to contact me for all the details). > >Alan Pereira > >From:Marg Strong [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: 25 April 2012 02:01 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from >Ancestry.com! > >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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