I realise that Legacy is currently a stand-alone program but I cannot see how it can last in its current form. First, technology and users expectations rapidly change and increase, while it my understanding is that Legacy is built on outdated technology which is why it cannot handle Unicode. Secondly, I cannot see why MyHeritage, which does everything online would keep Legacy which cannot cater for all their worldwide/culturally diverse users. It simply does not gel.
I do not buy the reassurances given. I have been through restructures and merges in private and public sectors. Reassurances about changes to practices or staffing never bear out. John From: Denise Moss-Fritch Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2017 12:48 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Concerns about MyHeritage If you sync with MyHeritage and leave the setting to public, then you tree would be visible. If you sync with MyHeritage, but set your tree to private (as is my tree) than no one will be able to see your data. If you do not sync your tree to MyHeritage, no tree will be uploaded. All the above are the same criteria as is found on Ancestry. I know, as I have a private tree there too. Denise From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Anne Wiltshire Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2017 7:22 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@Legacyusers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Fw: Concerns about MyHeritage Hello all Does My Heritage Privacy Policy for Legacy Family Tree (in the Help file) still apply or will My Heritage be able to take all my tree onto their website. With thanks Anne Wiltshire Runaway Bay QLD Australia From: CE WOOD Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2017 10:55 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Concerns about MyHeritage Their TreeBuilder syncs with their website. I do not use it, so know only that. Complete privacy on the website occurs ONLY if you set those options on your website tree. If you have more than one tree loaded on your website, you must set the privacy settings for each. Some people don't mind having people find and/or view some of their trees. You can even set your tree so that it cannot be found if someone searches. You can do the same for any pictures or files you upload. If someone can't find your info by searching, they cannot view it. You can limit those who can find your site to only your list of "members", and you can prevent "members" from changing anything on your site. On far too many internet sites you find on the internet, people think a source is someone else's website! With very, very few exceptions, you can never trust anyone else's sources; you must go to their source yourself to check. My research is mainly medieval. My sources are original documents (primary sources) or reliable secondary sources such as Complete Peerage, Domesday Descendants, Domesday People, Settipani's tomes, etc.., but, with new documents being discovered almost daily, especially in England, errors have been found in many of those. There are several scholarly websites devoted solely to the corrections in those. MyHeritage is very far from perfect, but they have access to only your information that you allow them. CE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> on behalf of johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au <johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au> Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2017 5:15 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@Legacyusers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Concerns about MyHeritage I tried MyHeritage with the basic subscription and don’t trust it for various reasons. It defaulted to automatic renewals every year and I don’t remember any other options. It was extremely difficult to find out how to enter an end date for the subscription because it was buried so deeply. From memory, I had to get out of their website and search on Google to find out how to do it. I entered some relatives on their Family Tree Builder. Even though I thought I kept everything private, it ended up fully displayed on their website. You can never relax while using MyHeritage and have to constantly be on guard. Their technology/program seems to have “trip wires” everywhere to reset everything to defaults that suit them. Like others, I found MyHeritage users never provide sources. To contact them or see their website, often requires paying the premium subscription. On one occasion, I did manage to correspond with someone using MyHeritage, but his information was full of errors and false presumptions. He claimed to be an engineer! I think MyHeritage will do everything they can to mine data from Legacy users. Also, Legacy users will gradually have to pay for more and more features and upgrades. As for cloud storage of family files- as soon as users get used to it, there is little doubt that costs will be attached. MyHeritage seems geared to obtaining your data for free, while making you pay as much possible to search for any. 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