« Reply #255 on: Tuesday 12 February 19 04:35 GMT (UK) »
I refuse to have an Ancestry tree for all of the reasons in this thread. Many years ago I did have one on Genes Reunited, and like most of us allowed people to view my tree if they shared an ancestor. My whole tree duplicated across the internet not just Genes Reunited. An earlier form of the tree was put on Rootsweb's Worldconnect by one of my cousins, who thought we might find relatives that way; that yree is even more widespread.
Regarding errors in duplicated trees, there are a large number of Dowdeswell family trees online that state they are descended from mine; all copied from one which neglected to check the ancestor in question actually died as a child. The burial record is plain to see, unless you need to find a connecting ancestor of course.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)
Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.