tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post9169340759229490359..comments2023-12-10T15:50:01.215-08:00Comments on Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog: My Great Great Grandfather Suddenly Has a New Identity......Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03670121380115693696noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-70878985244599942292011-03-19T09:27:16.049-07:002011-03-19T09:27:16.049-07:00Thanks everyone who posted comments! As of Saturd...Thanks everyone who posted comments! As of Saturday March 19, the photo of my gg grandfather John F Martine has been removed from the erroneous family tree.Bettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03670121380115693696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-35788522019849603982011-03-19T09:10:05.770-07:002011-03-19T09:10:05.770-07:00Hi, I have not been aware of that this could happe...Hi, I have not been aware of that this could happen .. It is of course very, very disappointed ... it does not feel nice at all...<br />Genealogy should be fun and nice!Yhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02633269934009174118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-63953579148257214842011-03-17T03:32:03.535-07:002011-03-17T03:32:03.535-07:00The same thing happened to me, someone posted 2 of...The same thing happened to me, someone posted 2 of my pictures to their tree, after contacting them, thankfully they removed them from their tree - and now my tree is private too! Good luck with your situation!!Karennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-55691674193103104072011-03-14T17:44:59.530-07:002011-03-14T17:44:59.530-07:00Betty - Thank you for sharing your story on the An...Betty - Thank you for sharing your story on the Ancestry FB wall. I am so sorry to hear this has happened to you and can relate to your frustration and disappointment. I do hope that the information gets corrected and you get feedback (positive) from Ancestry TGN. <br />As one of your posters said, "Unfortunately Ancestry's advertising encourages intellectual laziness." - this is an accurate statement! <br />Good luck!researcher in mainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-3320789647613337652011-03-14T16:44:31.661-07:002011-03-14T16:44:31.661-07:00I am so happy to see others are facing the same pr...I am so happy to see others are facing the same problems as myself and I really feel these online sites need to up there game to at least slow the perpetuation of false information.<br /><br />My own experience is that I get frustrated at seeing genealogy posted on sites such as familysearch or ancestry that is quite simply not accurate. I see people who are probably some version of a cousin thinking the Gregory's (my line anyway) originated in Scotland as MacGregors which is not true. My Y-dna proves that we originated in England or perhaps Frisia, but certainly not the MacGregors of Scotland.<br /><br />My question is, short of emailing hundreds of people at numerous sites, how is the best way to show these people their mistakes and perhaps turn some towards spitting in the process? My concern is that if I do not do something, false assumptions of genealogical ancestors will continue and the facts will not emerge.<br /><br />Anyway good luck with it all.<br /><br />MichaelAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01856505896881876818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-7833889313104250992011-03-14T16:26:05.914-07:002011-03-14T16:26:05.914-07:00Don't people even proofread before they post? ...Don't people even proofread before they post? I saw one that had a man married when he was four years old. I emailed some photos to a distant relative of my husband. She thanked me and said she was going to look through it and get back to me. I never heard from her again, but she posted the pictures I sent her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-73854344628034116032011-03-14T16:22:56.888-07:002011-03-14T16:22:56.888-07:00Kay, dcsmith & Yvonne, thanks for your insight...Kay, dcsmith & Yvonne, thanks for your insight & comments!<br /><br />I'll post on this blog if anything changes. <br /><br />BettyBettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03670121380115693696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-10384729613311372992011-03-14T16:14:08.741-07:002011-03-14T16:14:08.741-07:00This has happened to me on 2 different occasions. ...This has happened to me on 2 different occasions. I'm not sure how ancestry.com can prevent it really. I have started adding as many sources to my tree as possible, obits especially if I can find them; hopefully people would want to compare closely before actually creating their own fantasy family tree!Kaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-50072493122205382552011-03-14T12:17:26.365-07:002011-03-14T12:17:26.365-07:00Unfortunately Ancestry's advertising encourage...Unfortunately Ancestry's advertising encourages intellectual laziness.<br /><br />I'm fighting a never ending battle because people keep connecting the passenger ship record of my paternal grandmother Alice Ingeborg Eriksson, b. 1899 to a semi mythological Swedish Queen named Ingeborg Thandsdotter who, assuming she actually existed, would have been born around 980 AD.<br /><br />Most people don't make the correction, usually saying something like " Ancestry told me this so it must be true". One person even argued with me saying " how do you know she wasn't married before"<br /><br />My response was " Yes, you're right, she time travelled from the 1st millennium where she was royalty to work as a cook and marry a sign painter".<br /><br />I have 3 other relatives who have been hijacked like yours, spouses and children changed, yet they kept all the other info from my tree, which includes info not available on Ancestry.David Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16719429187904711188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-56011083357341410842011-03-14T11:07:00.227-07:002011-03-14T11:07:00.227-07:00It is wonderful that people use the ability to put...It is wonderful that people use the ability to put trees on ancestry.com. However, THIS is exactly the reason why I don't put one on anywhere publicly. I have two cousins that stole my complete family history, all 13,000 + of them and then made books and made a profit. That was just by "being nice and sharing" because they were family members. They attached their names as their sources and that they were the ones who found this information. Genealogy has become more of a profit to people. A way to make money. For me, my ancestors aren't for sale. Perhaps this person who did this is trying to make money. Even if you do make it private, when you do accept someone to look at your tree, they can still change things on their end, not on your tree... but on theirs and then you start back at square one. Resolution to all this? I have no idea. I don't want to be Mrs. Scrooge, but dang, I worked hard to find my info and get my pictures... don't misuse them. I am so sorry this happened to you Barbara.Yvonne C Johnsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-79051851730368373872011-03-14T10:00:20.300-07:002011-03-14T10:00:20.300-07:00Thanks Linda & Astrid; I have emailed Ancestry...Thanks Linda & Astrid; I have emailed Ancestry.com and I have posted a link to this blog on their Facebook page. So far, no response.<br /><br />This morning I made all my Ancestry.com family trees "private". None of my other photos attached to my family trees have been misused in this way.Bettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03670121380115693696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-722013072390839172011-03-14T09:13:21.611-07:002011-03-14T09:13:21.611-07:00Not that I think it would really do any good but h...Not that I think it would really do any good but have you tried contacting Ancestry? It would really be interesting to see what their position is on this situation. It's bad enough when there is incorrect information in those trees (much of which is directly caused by Ancestry's "point & click genealogy" in my opinion) but attaching a picture of one person to a completely different person really crosses the line as far as I'm concerned.Linda McCauleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08402203453403304529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-23131517593794964292011-03-13T18:23:10.199-07:002011-03-13T18:23:10.199-07:00Wow, that sucks. I have also found trees with inc...Wow, that sucks. I have also found trees with incorrect information. In two cases, I found they were not even related and had the wrong people -- my people. I found the correct people for them... and guess what... two years later and my people are still on both trees. One of them also has my pictures attached. I don't get why they want non-related people as ancestors.Astridhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00434175537509093484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-33928152810718695452011-03-13T08:49:35.019-07:002011-03-13T08:49:35.019-07:00Thanks Barb for the vote of confidence! I respect ...Thanks Barb for the vote of confidence! I respect your opinion as a genealogist, and your praise means a lot to me. :)<br /> <br />I just emailed a copy of the text of my blog to Ancestry.com It will be interesting to see what they say (if they ever respond). <br /><br />I also attached a link to my blog in the comment section of the erroneous family tree. <br /><br />If people want to merge Ancestry public family trees and the fill their online family trees with misinformation, that's their business. But I don't think they should be able to attach other people's family photos to the wrong individual. Ancestry.com needs to make sure that doesn't happen.Bettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03670121380115693696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1005457009871820467.post-6726709259752617262011-03-13T08:33:22.331-07:002011-03-13T08:33:22.331-07:00Betty, I wonder if that person knows that you are ...Betty, I wonder if that person knows that you are one of the best genealogists out there and are so thorough in your research. It is their loss, and indeed sad. I couldn't check their link to Ancestry, since I dropped my sub. a month ago. Did you ever tell them you have a blog? That is one of the first things I do, so they know I'm a serious with genealogy. Keep us posted. I would be willing to write them, in your behalf.Barbara Poolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07440544740334032378noreply@blogger.com