From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jul 19 11:43:39 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 k6JHhdjb020206; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:43:39 -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 k6JHhaHm018937 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:43:36 -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 k6JEfUFI011172 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:41:30 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6JEfUf2011171 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:41:30 -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 k6JDDNFI010958 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:13:23 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6JFpEaM031297 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:51:14 -0600 X-Envelope-From: Tmollaun@aol.com Wed Jul 19 09:51:14 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 k6JFpEjb031286 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:51:14 -0600 Received: from imo-m22.mail.aol.com (imo-m22.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.3]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6JFpB5i006466 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:51:11 -0600 Received: from Tmollaun@aol.com by imo-m22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id b.526.3f3f37e (42809); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:51:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Tmollaun@aol.com Message-ID: <526.3f3f37e.31efaee6@aol.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:51:02 EDT To: pals@c2i2.com, ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: Thunderbird - Mac OS X sub 292 X-Spam-Flag: NO 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 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Ancestry doesn't make the trees date: 7/19/2006 from: Donna subject: Ancestry doesn't make the trees. Pat writes: >Can anyone tell me how does the Ancestry World tree >project get your family files? One World Tree is USER submitted. It's like a forum or post on any other site. Ancestry doesn't make the trees, users do. If there is information on One World Tree that you know came from your personal sources, then you should check with the people with whom you have shared this data. Check with the ones who have an Ancestry.com subscription. Either one of those people put it on there, or they have found the same information that you have found. If you look at the tree, you will find a place on the page to click to find others interested in the same family. The name(s) of the contributors are not available, but could be one of the interested people on the list. You can email those people through Ancestry. Maybe you will find the person who submitted the information that way. Ancestry is very open about this, and those trees are not to be considered proof, just leads from other researchers who make the trees - not Ancestry. It's just different way of posting or a different forum style.