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Ancestry/Genealogy

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Spider Jerusalem

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2. I'm not really quite sure what you're on about
Thu Nov 29, 2012, 09:36 PM
Nov 2012

how do you mean "stolen"? If your relatives/ancestors are also the relatives and/or ancestors of other people (which seems not only probable but likely) then Ancestry's "World Tree" thing making those links is not "stealing"; personally, I've done quite a lot of tracing things back through variously available records, and discovered some things independently, but my parents' families have been in America since the seventeenth century and are more or less well-researched; there are books, there are thousands, or tens of thousands, or possibly even hundreds of thousands of descendants of my immigrant ancestors, and in most cases I'm going back over well-trodden ground and indebted to those who've done the work on those genealogies before me; I have no problem at all with people taking any information I happen to discover through what are after all public records and using it as long as they do so accurately.

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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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