-----Original Message-----
From: Dusty Smith [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 1:48 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Ancestry.com Just a warning to others


At the risk of  being the "bad" guy here, just for a moment I'd like to
play devils advocate.

Didn't we recently discuss that Ancestry bought Family tree and some
other genealogy  service from the internet?    How do we know that
Ancestry is the bad guy?  Maybe the info was incorrectly recorded and
listed by one of the other companies bought up by Ancestry and they
inherited the "misinformation".

It isn't in their best interest to have phony information that folks can
disprove (and we all know that we can disprove it with our years of
accumulated documents).   They really should be posting a disclaimer (as
do the LDS folks) that research is voluntarily contributed and should be
researched before taken as gospel.  Ancestry or family tree or any
depository of info such as these, have no way of knowing whether someone
plagiarized your work or mine before it was voluntarily contributed to
them.

I hate to see any site on the internet get a bad rap because the not so
honest folks who "steal" our work misrepresent the fact that it isn't
theirs and contribute it as their own.

I don't know, I just see the real culprit as being those who made the
contributions and not the people who are receiving it.

Don't yell at me  -   I was just sorta trying to throw out another
perspective.


D. Smith

-----Original Message-----
From: Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 12:52 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Ancestry.com Just a warning to others


We was speaking earlier about Ancestry.com. I found my work and personal
info on a tree and contacted the person about it and asked them to
remove it and I had not given permission for it be on there. I have
pasted in his response below. So "beware" of what you find and "beware"
of Ancestry.com. Note what he says in his response to my email to him.
Personal experience, Marlene


I am sorry but I don't know these people and did not enter the
information, how they came to be attached to my family tree and my name
I do not know, but I did not enter it, it is not my work. As I stated I
never heard of these people and I can find no connection to my family
tree, so how my name is attached to it I do not know. It has to be a
glitch at Ancestry.com, as I am finding HUNDREDS of names in my tree
that I have NEVER heard of, check to see who else has this info and see
if they are connected. Again sorry but not of my doing. Jim L

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