From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jul 20 12:37:42 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 k6KIbgjb012322; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:37:42 -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 k6KIbcSA008314 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:37:38 -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 k6KFxVFI016722 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:59:31 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6KFxVc1016721 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:59:31 -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 k6KFi6FI016587 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:44:06 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6KIM2Q5007158 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:22:02 -0600 X-Envelope-From: JYoung6180@aol.com Thu Jul 20 12:22:02 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 k6KIM2jb007147 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:22:02 -0600 Received: from imo-d23.mx.aol.com (imo-d23.mx.aol.com [205.188.139.137]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6KILaVb024762 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:21:36 -0600 Received: from JYoung6180@aol.com by imo-d23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.bc5.aefee0 (30737) for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:21:27 -0400 (EDT) From: JYoung6180@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:21:25 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5026 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] Re: Ancestry.com From: Margaret Miller I didn't submit anything to Ancestry.com. I was working on the family privately. Stayed away from the particular site for a period of time. When I returned, I found there was nothing there that I had posted; it had all been changed to match what Ancestry.com has in there data base. Suddenly a woman who had died and been buried in GA. turns up in LA in the grave of my cousin. Ancestry.com was the only one to my knowledge other than myself who had access this information. --- What people need to realize when they are doing genealogical research is that many other people are also doing the same research. You found your information someplace that you have used to record your family tree. That same information is available to others through the same sources you have used to gather data--birth, marriage, and death records, published family histories, biographies, census data and many other documents that can be obtained both online and off. You say YOU didn't submit data on your family to Ancestry but ancestry has data posted on your family or has incorrect data. The first thing you need to do is to establish WHERE at Ancestry you found the data and, assuming it is user-contributed data you can usually add a Post-em Note (User-added Note) to the record and note any correction you'd like to make so the submitter can correct the data. If you found the data in OWT you can edit it if you like. I still stick to my original position that the BEST way to ensure that accurate and complete data is published online is to submit it yourself to RootsWeb's WorldConnect database where you can control it and edit and remove it anytime you like. The ONLY data you have complete control over is data you publish under your own name in your own family tree. Joan