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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: AllanUK on Wednesday 15 September 21 09:44 BST (UK)
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I have a very small portion of my tree on Ancestry. It is private and I have only ever invited one person (who lives in Australia) to view it as a guest. Yesterday, I received an email from ancestry linking me to a tree (that has nothing to do with the portion that I have posted as private), the user lives in BC, Canada. The family name and origins in my private tree do not match up whatsoever with the tree that Ancestry is trying to link me to. What is Ancestry trying to do these days?
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Are you sure they've linked your tree. My understanding is that they suggest and ask if you want to include people from other trees.
What exactly does the e-mail say?
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Hi Gadget,
Please see image of email (I have deleted my email address)
Allan
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Check the years you have in your Private tree and the ones that are linked to BC.
If they are the same it's a clash.
It happens.
I have had this loads of time in all different site.
Maggsie
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I only have this about trees that I've been invited to look at as a guest or whatever. Never to my tree.
It's just to tell you about them. I ignore them. They have never added anything to my tree.
Check your tree to see if they have been added to it.
Gadget
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Check the years you have in your Private tree and the ones that are linked to BC.
If they are the same it's a clash.
It happens.
I have had this loads of time in all different site.
Maggsie
Hi Maggsie,
The name quoted in the Ancestry email, William John Pratt, means nothing to me. I do have a few 'prats' amongst my nearest and dearest but no PRATT family.
Allan
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Ok, The invited person is adding to their tree, not your tree.
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I only have this about trees that I've been invited to look at as a guest or whatever. Never to my tree.
It's just to tell you about them. I ignore them. They have never added anything to my tree.
Check your tree to see if they have been added to it.
Gadget
I think our posts crossed.
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In the email, it says:
'See what's new in your family tree.'
'View your tree'
When I click on 'View your tree' (which, as the email was addressed to me, I took as being an invitation to view my own private tree on Ancestry), the link takes me to ''Our family tree New 2017 family tree Robinson_Hindson_Crack_Broster_Tully is growing''
I think that I will remove my private tree from Ancestry.
Allan
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Allan
When they say 'your family tree' it's not your tree. It's just the way they refer to any tree that you have access to as a guest, contributor or editor.
Has your private tree been changed?
Gadget
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Allan
When they say 'your family tree' it's not your tree. It's just the way they refer to any tree that you have access to as a guest, contributor or editor.
Has your private tree been changed?
Gadget
Hi Gadget,
My tree has not been changed. My concerns are why I am now a guest on a tree that I have no connections with. Please see image.
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Maybe Cathy Robinson has added you as a guest. She may have come across you as a DNA match or it may be just an error. In conspiracy vs “cock up” it is often just the latter.
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Maybe Cathy Robinson has added you as a guest. She may have come across you as a DNA match or it may be just an error. In conspiracy vs “cock up” it is often just the latter.
Never submitted (or had test taken) of DNA. Obviously as you say 'a cock up'. Don't know how Cathy Robinson is but I will ignore anything that Ancestry pushes my way that is linked to her tree.
Humble apologies to one and all and to Cathy Robinson -- I don't have a family link to Cathy's family but her name started to 'ring bells' in my old head. Last December, Cathy posted a request on RootsChat concerning an ancestor that served in WW1. I remember trying to help via personal messages but unfortunately couldn't help her. To assist her, she gave me guest access to her online tree.
Once again, humble apologies to one and all and especially to Cathy if she happens to come across this thread.
Allan
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You could send Cathy a message, here and/or on Ancestry, asking that you be removed as a guest. Or, you can go into your own account at Ancestry and under Site Preferences, go to Notification Settings and un-tick the box that says you want notifications when that tree is updated.