Why do you or don't you put your Trees on Genealogy sites?

[pinefamily]

No, you can reply to messages through Ancestry without a subscription. I don't have a sub at the moment, but have been exchanging info with someone who has a private tree on there.
I have been fortunate with the covid crisis in that our public library service has made the library edition available remotely; you just sign in with your library details.

[jettejjane]

Well I have started my tree on ancestry thanks to this thread. .   i agreed with the comments about putting it online to help future researchers.  I hope they appreciate my efforts   Its going to take a while but in this current climate I am not doing much .  I am not adding sources or any family pics or documents. I don't consider it necessary.   What I have recorded can be found by anyone with a bit of effort, cant make it too easy.  But maybe I will change my mind at a later date as I have sure changed my mind since I posted this thread.

Its a bit  different from a lot of other Redman Trees  but its all proved by me with a lot of blood, sweat and tears thrown in.  It  will be interesting to see if I am contacted by anyone.

[coombs]

I always like to share my trees, and exchange info with others as I am not the only one who descends from these people, it would seem selfish of me to keep everything to myself. I even had a message the other day from the husband of a distant cousin saying well done for how I had linked the family through wills.

[Albufera32]

Well I have started my tree on ancestry thanks to this thread. .   i agreed with the comments about putting it online to help future researchers.  I hope they appreciate my efforts   Its going to take a while but in this current climate I am not doing much .  I am not adding sources or any family pics or documents. I don't consider it necessary.   What I have recorded can be found by anyone with a bit of effort, cant make it too easy.  But maybe I will change my mind at a later date as I have sure changed my mind since I posted this thread.

Its a bit  different from a lot of other Redman Trees  but its all proved by me with a lot of blood, sweat and tears thrown in.  It  will be interesting to see if I am contacted by anyone.

In many ways, my public tree is similar - I have quite deliberately not added any media or sources to the tree although I do include the parish/reference number for Scotland's People registers. What I have done though is mention in my tree description that I do have a private, sourced tree. Of course, some people may still dismiss the tree as "unsourced" and not even bother to look at it, but I figure that is their loss, not mine.

[venelow]

Interesting thread Jettejjane

For me making trees public is about sharing and making the research as accurate as possible. I have many trees or parts of trees that I keep on Ancestry. Most are private but when I am satisfied they are as correct as they can be I make them public. If there are concerns I make notes in the comments box and invite comments.
 
I am willing to share information and don't really worry that I have paid for it or traveled a long way to get it. Where copyright is an issue I describe the pertinent information and tell them where the document can be obtained.

If I see other trees are missing the information I have, I do try and contact the owner. Not always successfully however especially if the facts I am offering do not line up with the family tradition that they are related to some well known family. One relative, confronted with hard evidence that what she had been told as a child was not correct, just refused to believe it.

If I had not made one of the trees I have worked on public, then I would not have been contacted by specialist medieval researcher who informed me that one of the wives in the tree leads to a royal connection and directed me to a site where I could find out more.

I was also contacted by someone in the UK looking for descendants of a recently deceased person for probate purposes. Although the person was not showing on my tree other information led him to make contact. I had knowledge of the person and was very surprised to hear they had only recently died. I was able to give him information that satisfied him he was on the right track and that any relatives would likely be found in Canada.

Although I only started researching twenty years ago I have wanted to know about my ancestors since I was about twelve. I asked older relatives for information and kept notes of various family tales many of which turned out to be not true. Often it was a mixed-up version where someone has misunderstood some grown-up talk or not realized that someone was just making a joke. Sometimes a child had been deliberately told an untruth to soften the blow of what really happened.

I have made some great contacts through making my researched trees public and sharing and co-operating on research projects has been very productive.

Venelow
Canada

[pinefamily]

Well I have just joined you, Jane in "crossing over to the dark side". 
I have just uploaded a gedcom to Ancestry and made it a public tree (for now at least).

[jettejjane]

Deciding  to put my tree on ancestry has proved worthwhile.  I always check and re-check my findings but have just discovered a glaring error.  Sometimes you just cant see the wood for the trees

Going through some earlier ancestors I  realised this mistake. Many of my male Redman ancestors bear the same Christian name and also marry spouses with the same Christian names.  Daniel Redman Senior  married  Nancy also known as Ann Langley, he also had a son Daniel Junior  who married an Ann as yet surname unknown .   Long story short I allocated all Daniel juniors children to his father.

Today's task is sorted concentrate on Daniel Junior. 

[jettejjane]

Well I have just joined you, Jane in "crossing over to the dark side". 
I have just uploaded a gedcom to Ancestry and made it a public tree (for now at least).

Who would have thought we would join"the dark side"

Its going to take me a while I think.

[Albufera32]

Never under estimate the power of the dark side.