From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon May 8 10:09:04 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 k48G94jb017164; Mon, 8 May 2006 10:09:04 -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 k48G93hJ008866 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 10:09:03 -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 k48DZHFI019184 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 09:35:17 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k48DZHWh019183 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 8 May 2006 09:35:17 -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 k48DR7FI019049 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 09:27:08 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k48G0iEC005735 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 8 May 2006 10:00:44 -0600 X-Envelope-From: JYoung6180@aol.com Mon May 8 10:00:44 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 k48G0ijb005726 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 10:00:44 -0600 Received: from imo-m16.mx.aol.com (imo-m16.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.206]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k48G0eeg001952 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 10:00:40 -0600 Received: from JYoung6180@aol.com by imo-m16.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.215.167beff0 (3858) for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 12:00:28 -0400 (EDT) From: JYoung6180@aol.com Message-ID: <215.167beff0.3190c51c@aol.com> Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 12:00:28 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: One World Tree JennaJLR@aol.com wrote: The information that is in question in this particular thread came from my files and ended up on One World Tree without my knowledge. However, the information taken from my files was never submitted to Genealogy.com nor was it posted on an FTM family tree site or any other online site. How can I tell? The incorrect spellings of some of the names were only in the files in my computer and had never been put on a public access site. They were in my FTM software program and were soon corrected. ------ My reply: So you are saying that somehow FTM stole your data directly off your personal computer and placed it on One World Tree without your knowledge or consent and you never submitted it to anyone? Impossible! You no doubt shared your data with a friend or relative and that person added it to his GEDCOM and submitted it publicly which is how it got online -- assuming you did not submit it *publicly* anyplace yourself and simply have forgotten that you did so. Once a GEDCOM is publicly uploaded by someone (whether it was you or someone you entrusted with your database) the public domain data included in that file may be included in the One World Tree searches. But, someplace, sometime, you had to have shared your data with someone else (misspellings and all)--either publicly or privately--and that is how it became accessible via OWT. It wasn't obtained by Ancestry through theft or osmosis. Joan