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In reply to the discussion: ancestry.com info. [View all]

munseepine

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21. Delayed Response
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 11:24 AM
Sep 2014

Never read this until today ... I have a family genealogical website myself, and yep, my favorite responses are from ladies (?) like Lisa here, who have yet to figure out that Ancestry.com is NOT (and has never claimed to be) the end-all of genealogical information, but a tool that you can use to create your own Family Tree, along with many other tools that are available to you. Of COURSE it may not be correct - I've seen State and Federal records so messed up I figured the census taker had gone deaf or something. It's up to YOU, Lisa, to do your research, or politely make the corrections you feel need to be made - instead of jumping up and down and squealing like a stuck pig that Ancestry.com has wrong information in it. I had one stupid woman like Lisa send me an e-mail about an error in a family group (data courtesy of a book written in the 1890's) in which she started off shrieking that it was "cruel" of me to list a child of her great grandmother that she KNEW her great-grandmother never had, and obviously, I was out to ruin the woman's reputation when she wasn't alive to defend herself, and she was going to sue!!! (I sat there and stared at the e-mail thinking, "Wow. Somebody went off her meds ...&quot I'd feel bad for the poor Ancestry customer service rep who had to deal with Lisa, were I not so irked at their inserting pop-up ads all over the place. You can barely maneuver your way around their site as it is, even with a pop-up blocker. Of course this site does the exact same thing (double red-underlines every other word) - so I'm not sure why I bother even complaining anymore.

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ancestry.com info. [View all] CountAllVotes Nov 2012 OP
I signed up when I heard they were looking for buyers Viva_La_Revolution Nov 2012 #1
Good plan CountAllVotes Nov 2012 #4
I'm not really quite sure what you're on about Spider Jerusalem Nov 2012 #2
placing someone in their tree that does NOT belong there CountAllVotes Nov 2012 #3
But is it an automated process... Spider Jerusalem Nov 2012 #5
the sad part is this ... CountAllVotes Nov 2012 #8
A mistake is not "thievery", though Spider Jerusalem Nov 2012 #9
People make mistakes CanonRay Dec 2012 #20
The biggest complaint I have about ancestry.com is that they've ALWAYS made it hard to leave. Gormy Cuss Nov 2012 #6
My only problem with that is that you can't cancel online and have to call Spider Jerusalem Nov 2012 #7
It's both the inability to cancel online and problems getting through on the call line. Gormy Cuss Nov 2012 #10
When you sign up you can pre-set the cancellation csziggy Dec 2012 #15
actually, my plan is this CountAllVotes Dec 2012 #16
Anytime they think they're going to lose you, they will make deals csziggy Dec 2012 #18
Thanks for that info Gormy Cuss Dec 2012 #17
I've been caught a few times forgetting to unsubscribe soon enough. polly7 Dec 2012 #19
I was recently on the phone with someone from ancestry.com . . . fleur-de-lisa Nov 2012 #11
The purpose of this type of research is ... CountAllVotes Nov 2012 #13
Delayed Response munseepine Sep 2014 #21
When you first sign up it tells you to notify them days before GentryDixon Nov 2012 #12
You can keep your family trees private csziggy Dec 2012 #14
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