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hi guys looks like i opened a can of worms stating that i follow the name (male) side of the family. i have nothing against the female side and agree it does sound a bit sexist in this day and age ....as i did say I've been tracing only the name for a reason ...it was the task set for me by my uncle who travelled to Ireland to trace our Joyce family line and found so many Joyce families he got completely confused. My uncle and father where two of 5 brothers whos father, my granddad had informed them that he could remember leaving Ireland as a very young lad. With my research i had the very unenviable task of informing them that he had led them on. i have traced the family back living in London to 1822. Using only 100% connections all traced and proven by me. I suspect i can go back at least 2 more generations but i can not prove 100% the link so until i do i stop in 1822.
the reason i am interested in other peoples trees is because with a limited amount of people to trace i have been lucky enough to be able to collect a lot of information about the members of my tree. that includes contacting other researchers and exchanging information as well as pictures i have now built up quite a collection of photos of individuals in my family but there are two branches in particular that i have been unable to find any body researching them ...so i need to broaden my search to other sites to try and find other researchers. i do agree with what most of you have said about not taking other peoples information with out thoroughly proving its right first.
                                                                                   tezz   

I have been with ancestry for quite a number of years i use other sites as well mainly the genealogist but have also tried find my past and my heritage My heritage claimed to access to other peoples trees but its mainly American trees. ...i agree with both of you my own trees have only proven connections on them and i wouldn't add any one with out proving the connection myself ...its not the tree I'm practically interested in its family pictures i have a fairly limited tree due to my own restrictions of only following the male members i only trace the females until there death i don't then trace there children plus I've only been able to prove 100% back to 1822 and I'm not able to prove his family so he is on his own at the moment with no brothers or sisters or mother and father ...which in a way has helped because i have a limited amount of people  to trace  i have managed to contact every one tracing my family tree on the site I'm on and we have shared pictures of our relatives ...but there's two branches with no direct decedents and i have no pictures of any of them (I'm talking about relatives who are now no longer with us and its done with the consent of the original owners)...we have exchanged lots of information and all gained through this co operation, but I've now exhausted the links on my websites and was looking for another which is set up in a similar way so that i could find other members tracing my tree and hopefully find someone tracing those two branches. 

Ok thanks guys ...for some reason i was under the impression because you can find these records on free sites as well as pay sites the actual pages from church registers, census records and similar records where not owned by any one. I understand the process of taking a copy to put onto a site would cost the site time and money to provide but i thought that was why you pay for membership.
What i had planed to do was to create a way that my family could contribute to my research with photos and information at the same time as being able to see what information i had already found. All of this i wanted to keep private by invitation only. Very few of my relatives have ancestry accounts let alone all 3 sites and i have information from each site collected together on my pc that no one but me is able to see
                                 Tez   

yes its great news mapco.net is back online
                                         happy searching for streets in London again now
                                                          tezz