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Harvesting info from other trees
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Claire in Lincs | Report | 27 Jan 2010 11:39 |
Yes, but why would you copy info from someone else's tree..enter details into your own without ever checking it first. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 26 Jan 2010 15:58 |
The facility to allow other members to see access your tree is fundamental to the operation of GR so I can't see it being removed. |
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Joanna | Report | 26 Jan 2010 13:08 |
Fair enough, it doesn't work quite like I thought it would, but that isn't a problem, i expect many people are in the same boat as me, not deliberately being impolite. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 25 Jan 2010 21:29 |
I don't, I ask the connection then I tell them the line that they are interested in, and then answer any queries they have. I also send copies of photos and certificates that I have. |
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Joanna | Report | 25 Jan 2010 21:13 |
No the large tree would never work, least of all because people record things in different ways so even 'matching' trees would clash. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 25 Jan 2010 13:11 |
No Joanne. I am sure you wont have offended anyone. I think people object really to being taken for granted. Like the person (nobody in particular) who takes a lot of information off somebody's tree when it is opened to them, doesn't acknowledge the fact or say thank you, and gives nothing back. |
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Joanna | Report | 25 Jan 2010 12:12 |
This is intriguing. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 22 Jan 2010 15:16 |
Robert there are some strange people who seem to think the whole idea is to make their tree as large as possible with as many names as they can going back as far as they can. It takes all sorts. To me it is all about tracing my family, where I come from (my roots), knowing how they lived etc. I have been doing this for over 30 years and don't even have 1000 yet, but that doesn't worry me at all. |
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Elizabeth2469049 | Report | 22 Jan 2010 15:10 |
When I am given access to a tree which gives me new information I usually say "thanks, and if you don't object I'd like to add some of this to my tree" and if I don't get an objection fairly quickly I do. I do give as the source whose tree I got it from - indicating that I haven't checked every detail myself. |
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Robert | Report | 22 Jan 2010 15:03 |
I guess I don''t understand why someone would add names that they weren't sure of to their tree. I deem it important for posterity to be as accurate as possible. What would be the motivation to add erroneous names to ones ancestry? |
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MrDaff | Report | 22 Jan 2010 13:47 |
Not at all, MGH.... there have been at least three threads from gentleman in the last few weeks about this very subject... and as has been said, most folk would just like a bit of politeness. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 22 Jan 2010 13:27 |
I think we are entitled to politeness MGH. |
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Claire in Lincs | Report | 22 Jan 2010 12:49 |
Well it might come up 'month after month' but it certainly hasnt happened to me before..so as i pay my subscription i can whing on the boards if i want to. |
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ElizabethK | Report | 22 Jan 2010 10:57 |
My recent lot of Hot Marches contained a whole batch which certainly matched with names and dates but in the "where born" box was "don't know" |
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Claire in Lincs | Report | 22 Jan 2010 09:42 |
Thank you Ann. you have said it much better than i have .x |
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AnninGlos | Report | 22 Jan 2010 08:34 |
You are always going to get people who collect names on their trees and yes, it is bad manners when they don't ask. I am wary now about giving access but always give information on the line to which they connect. |
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Claire in Lincs | Report | 22 Jan 2010 08:33 |
Of course,,,there is the area of thought that people who copy from other tree's are just name collectors. Anyone who copies without checking the info first is an idiot, |
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Berona | Report | 22 Jan 2010 08:24 |
I have done my OH's tree back to the 1500's. He was the first to emigrate to Australia. I have also done my own trees (both sides) back to the 1700's and ongoing. The only possible connection between my trees and my OH's tree is ME! (and our children, of course) and yet, Hot Matches showed that another GR member had people from both my tree and my OH's tree in his tree. I contacted him and he said that he had so many names in his tree, he was unable to tell me how they were connected. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 22 Jan 2010 08:12 |
I was just thinking the other day that this topic hasn't come up for at least a month. |
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Claire in Lincs | Report | 22 Jan 2010 08:04 |
Shaun |