From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jul 19 03:53:39 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6J9rdjb025398; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:53:39 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6J9raEp008581 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:53:36 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6J7FYFI009728 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:15:34 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6J7FY9J009727 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:15:34 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6J3jJFI009327 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:45:19 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6J6N9QM023025 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:23:09 -0600 X-Envelope-From: mscheffl@twcny.rr.com Wed Jul 19 00:23:09 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6J6N9jb023016 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:23:09 -0600 Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.56]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6J6N7Aw030618 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:23:07 -0600 Received: from m1070n (cpe-69-201-76-92.twcny.res.rr.com [69.201.76.92]) by ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6J6N42Y020112; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:23:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <02ea01c6aafb$c87a0170$6501a8c0@m1070n> From: "MScheffler" To: "Pat Stansbury" , References: <001301c6aae1$b751e940$02000003@oemcomputer> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Ancestry World tree project surprise! Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:22:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I cannot answer in detail, but when Ancestry was beginning the One World Tree program, they wrote to people about having their information which was in the Ancestry shared database included. If your information was included without your having denied permission for your information, then you must have shared your files with someone else who submitted your material. I happen to believe that when we share online well researched material, we all benefit. On several occasions people have written to me offering material that I would never have received unless I had first shared a database online. So, the bottom line is -- if you did not share your database with Ancestry or WorldConnect in gedcom format, then someone you sent your gedcom material to did so. The material did not get to an online shared database without someone submitting it. I personally find the WorldConnect database and its equivalent on Ancestry of more value than the One World Tree material. But that is my opinion. I do like Ancestry in general, and for one who cannot spend hours in a library or traveling to do onsite research at this point in time, Ancestry is a wonderful asset to my own research . The bottom line is that if you do not want your information to show up online. DO NOT share it with anyone. Once any one of us send off a gedcom file to ANYONE , it is no longer in our control. I personally made some mistakes in one of my direct lines, and eventually found the mistakes included in a Kindred Konnections database that a third party downloaded from Ancestry and submitted there. Personally I believe sharing is preferred over not doing so, provided the people who share make an effort to be accurate and share sources. Is any service perfect? No. No one stole anyone's database from an individual's computer. It required someone purposefully submitting it. If one does not want to see their information in an online database, then share it with no one. But this is an endeavor where we need help from others.... Margaret Scheffler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Stansbury" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 12:15 AM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Ancestry World tree project surprise! > Can anyone tell me how does the Ancestry World tree project get your > family > files ? I was shocked to see that ALL my research and notes, public & > private about my family are on Ancestry World Tree on the internet for > everyone to see. Much of my notes were for private family information > only. > I can't believe this, as I never sent in that information. Also, is there > a > way to have it taken off ? Has anyone else had a problem like this? How > can > they just get our hard earned research without our permission and then > make > a profit by it ? All the genealogists including myself, share their > research > gladly with others, but to have it taken without permission, and displayed > only to paying customers is an outrage. I'd like to hear from others with > the same opinion. > Pat in AZ > > >