GenesReunited advice needed

[aspin]

Thats a good idea Linda to keep your children and close family on another tree

Just went back into my tree and had a look at the person who has done a lot of copying from mine , she even has my children in her tree this I feel is very unfair of her

Can I ask is there a way to download my tree  from GR to a CD

Elizabeth

[Tricia_2]

They are not allowed to add living people without the express permission of those people ~ and I personally don't think that minors should be considered capable or mature enough to give permission.

Make them remove minors, and any adults who haven't given permission. This is what I have had to do in the past.

Now I've hidden my living relatives. I never had my husband children, sibling, etc, on because I think too much info on the Internet is not wise. I have even done what was advised by someone else on here ~ not put a date of death for my father and 'hidden' him.

The Internet can be a dangerous place. We can benefit such a lot from the help and support of other genealogists, but we must remember that anyone can access the information on the 'World Wide Web'.  We must be cautious.

[aspin]

Thank you Tricia I think I will send a mail to this person

Elizabeth

[margaret55]

Hi i wonder if the person who has been in touch with you is the same one who got in touch with me last April he was supposed to have an ancestor  with the same name as one of mine in his tree and he only had himself on the tree and still has i could not make anything of him so i took my tree of his computer he would not tell me anything about his ancestors so i refused to keep in touch i felt uncomfortable with him. be carefull. Margaret55.

[aspin]

I have sent an e-mail to the person who had my children and grandchildren added to their tree and they have removed them and apologized to me

Elizabeth

[Tricia_2]

That's good news.

[uk2003]

I've made some great contacts via Genes. Be careful before you allow strangers into your tree make sure you have 'hidden' your live rellies, I keep the more sensitive information on a private tree which no one but my family can see.

Linda

Just what I have done, I have seen some Genes users who put even the shoe sizes on it (well you know what I mean) and they are so open to identity theft.

I have 707 names in my tree now and everyone who is alive is now marked as eg "living Jones" born "1970" place "England". So an outsider has no chance of working out who they are

My family tree maker s/w is the only place I have all the details, safe on my pc behind a firewall, and the online is just dead rellies and very little on the living.

It just had to be done - I had my debit card cloned about a year ago - so now I take great care in all my private data. Unlike the goverment

Ken

[Cember]

I have only about a hundred rellies on my tree in GR - keeping it simple .
I have just found someone with a match for a dozen of my rellies - a couple of complete families.I messaged them with a question, and they replied with a simple "I have shared my tree", but without answering the question.
So I've had a look on their tree but nowhere can I see a link I've been up and down the names we have in common and there is a dead end in all directions.
As their tree contains over 78,500 names could I reasonably deduce that they are not connected and are simply collecting names ?
what does the team think? 

[margaret55]

 i get a lot of people asking about my ancestors and if we share trees and they turn out not to be mine i remove my tree of their computer.i also wonder how people can say they have a connection when they only have themselves on their tree.gr keep sending matches and most of the time they are way of the mark and are no where near a match. i have met up with a relative from my tree and we get on very well we are very distant cousins but is nice to find someone connected.margaret55.