Comments on: Genealogy Goals: 3rd Quarter Report

By: Shernan15

Shernan15 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 01:26:32 +0000

I have so much enjoyed member connect and genealogy in general. It helps me meet other family members, finding info that I may not have, helping others with their research. Being able to connect with people through ancestry’s mail is a great way to get acquainted with others too. UNTIL TODAY, when I discovered someone unknown to me was able to take photo’s of living people from one of my trees, and add it to their tree. When I looked at the family tree view in their tree I had never heard of any of the people in their tree. Photo’s of my grandchildren and neices and nephews, sons and daughters etc. I am absolutely outraged that this is allowed to happen. Who knows what this person will do with these photo’s, sell them to a porn site, utube, facebook? What???? Am I going to have to make my trees “Private”? I didn’t want to do that, I like sharing information with others, but not photo’s of living people, especially children, to those that are not invited to my tree.

By: yaron

yaron — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:55:45 +0000

My name is yaron and my genealogy starts from adam and eve, however my grandparents come from Finland and Moroco

http://www.baj.co.il

By: Pat Secord

Pat Secord — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:39:39 +0000

RE: #15 Ida: I would LOVE it if we could organize photos in whatever order we want. Even if you re-load everything, at some point you run across something else to add, then it’s out of order again. Never thought about the documents/photos being separate. That would be a great option!

By: Ida May Noble

Ida May Noble — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:45:41 +0000

I certainly agree with everything said here in Genealogy Goals: 3rd Quarter Report, a great article.
I decided this year to create separate family Trees for each direct line, instead of “lumping” everyone together into one huge tree. And of course have found new added information not only at Ancestry, but many other places as well. Regarding backing up,absolutely essential, I have two separate backups at home, also Ancestry, and an off site back up. I agree with Monika’s comment about giving credit where credit is due. In 35 years of research and traveling to hundreds of courthouses, libraries, societies, cemeteries, family members, etc, etc, etc, I would like to get the credit for my passion, an added note here – should I have something to be in error, I want to be the one to immediately correct it. On rare occasions, I have seen some of my original research twisted into something total wrong by someone else. Regarding 4. – Make sure everything has a SOURCE, can not stress enough how important that is. I am in the process of adding “media”, documents and photos pertaining to each person. I would like to say here that I am a little disappointed as to how Ancestry ties documents and photos together in the Media Gallery – documents and photos should be two separate categories in the Gallery, Uncle Joe’s death certificate is not his photo, it’s a document. I didn’t notice soon enough that if you don’t upload media in exact chronological order, it rather a miss-mash. I went through and started uploading death certificates first, then marriages, now Uncle Joe’s death certificate appears before his marriage license. Call me a stickler for time-line order. If Ancestry could create separate categories, one for documents, one for photos this would be fantastic, and be able to move them within these categories in time-line order would be even greater. Is technology today able to do this or is it wishful thinking on my part? Is there anyone else out there that would be interested in this? Again, great article, Thank You!!

By: dee

dee — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:09:58 +0000

Backing Up is really required, as to my husband. I have been told by him, but didn’t take his advice. My Family Tree Maker had about a 1000 people, lots of documents and pictures. Then the fateful day when my Laptop crashed, and I lost it all. I had some info on ancestry.com, but not all, and now I am rebuilding my Family on FTM. Now I will be backing up regulary.

By: Monika

Monika — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:15:22 +0000

This seems to be a hodgepodge of answers to blogs that are not present on that site. Anyhow! What I have discovered, when sharing my data (pictures and documents) with a couple of people who have Family Tree Maker is, that–every time that they “sync” their data–the credit for all the dozens and dozens of pictures and records that I have contributed to their trees is given to the tree owner who synced, and the original contributor of these pictures or records does not show anymore. And that does not apply just to my contributions. You have trees with 40,000 names in it where EVERY picture or document taken from various other trees shows as having been contributed by the tree owner himself (the one who synced). What is it about FTM and the sync ing process that causes that? I really do not believe that these tree owners are doing this on purpose. So there must be some kind of “glitch” in the program!

By: Trevor Thacker

Trevor Thacker — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:28:22 +0000

Randall, Instructions for generating a GEDCOM file from Ancestry can be found here: http://ancstry.me/RPxidw. If you have Family Tree Maker and want to create a backup, click here: http://ancstry.me/PHSnsg

By: Randall Benton

Randall Benton — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:03:59 +0000

In reference to creating backups…good idea. I can not imagine having to start all this research over. I need however to learn how to make a “GEDCOM”. Not sure about how this works. As for photo’s as part of my research…I just finished my initial scanning and logging all of my familiies photo, post cards, etc….took a long time but it is done and what a relief!!!

By: Phyllis Couch

Phyllis Couch — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:58:06 +0000

Concerning the paragraph “Respond to Messages”, I have the very same problem.I will try to remember “Jacki”‘s comment.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:40:58 +0000

This was a waste of space – hire someone better.