From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat May 6 15:20:27 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 k46LKRjb026106; Sat, 6 May 2006 15:20:27 -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 k46LKQkX002795 for ; Sat, 6 May 2006 15:20:27 -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 k46IklFI031057 for ; Sat, 6 May 2006 14:46:47 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k46IklFx031056 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 6 May 2006 14:46:47 -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 k46B7SFI030225 for ; Sat, 6 May 2006 07:07:28 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k46Devd0006217 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 6 May 2006 07:40:57 -0600 X-Envelope-From: Tmollaun@aol.com Sat May 6 07:40:57 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 k46Devjb006206 for ; Sat, 6 May 2006 07:40:57 -0600 Received: from imo-m24.mx.aol.com (imo-m24.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.5]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k46DetqQ029991 for ; Sat, 6 May 2006 07:40:55 -0600 Received: from Tmollaun@aol.com by imo-m24.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.40a.10745a7 (3699); Sat, 6 May 2006 09:40:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Tmollaun@aol.com Message-ID: <40a.10745a7.318e0161@aol.com> Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 09:40:49 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com, fenenga@connpoint.net 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] ROOTS - Ancestry Trees date: 5/6/2006 from: Donna subject: One World Tree / Ancestry On 5/6/2006, Cornelia wrote: " they have butchered my family tree, and now they expect me to make the corrections? literally thousands of them?" No Cornelia, you are not expected to correct anything on One World Tree. Ancestry is very open about the concept of it & all know that it is user submitted & not documented. I would suggest that you ignore that part of Ancestry. I do if I'm looking for facts & only resort to it when looking for leads. I have an ancestor with a fairy tale record that started with a book written by a well meaning woman back in 1978. Since that time, all researchers follow that book in the beginning only to find some of the information is false when they obtain the correct documents. This particular ancestor is on One World Tree with the same information contained in that book. I correct that information with my documentation as often as I can because I want those researchers on the correct path as soon as possible. The more they know, the sooner they can find the gaps that I seek. But that's my choice. We all have a choice. Just remember that Ancestry's trees are user submitted & not a document made up by Ancestry. One World Tree is more like a forum. Sincerely, Donna