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Why have a PRIVATE PROFILE?

Re: Why have a PRIVATE PROFILE?

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 1:12AM GMT
Classification: Query
Here we go again. . . . .Why have a private residence if others are living in public housing? You can choose your nouns for comparison, but it all boils down to the fact that "everyone" wants what they don't have. And if those persons strongly believe that you have what they want, they think it is their prerogative to take it for themselves. That is why the prisons and jails are so overpopulated, because many didn't want to work for a living and wanted what others had worked to acquire for their families. It is called green-eyed jealousy. Everyone has the right to choose: public or private; private and indexed; private and not indexed. If public tree owners want privacy and "exclusivity," then they have three options to choose from.

What I don't understand is the disparity between private tree owners and members who do not maintain a tree on ACOM. Some seem to think it is ok for non-tree owning members to access everything on site, including contents of public member trees; but not ok for members who maintain private trees. What the public tree owners seemingly are having difficulty comprehending is that many of those members who do not maintain a tree on ACOM, whether public or private, may be selling the data that they pull from public trees and databases to perform their business of researching family trees for profit. Surprisingly, public tree owners don't even blink an eye about that behavior, They can't see what's in those off-site trees, nor benefit financially from use of their own information to build trees for profit. Think about it for a while.

The grass always appears greener on the other side of the fence, until one walks to the other side of the fence. Voila! Now the grass has become greener on the vacated side of the fence and appears less so on the current side of the fence. There will always be those with more than those with less, and those with lots more than both groups combined. The alternative is to move to another country with a socialistic government where everyone has the same. The caveat is that everyone has an equally minimal amount of income or government subsidy to exist. But wait. . . . .what about those in high government positions and the wealthy business people in those other countries? There is a huge gap in economic status and standard of living that no ordinary citizen can ever hope to achieve there.

Re: Why have a PRIVATE PROFILE?

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 4:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Aug 2015 4:45PM GMT
"as this website is 50% working off of other family trees." Not for me. I'm here to build my family up and back using the databases, and by using other sources such as the familysearch. I have my trees turned off for hints. OFF! I can't afford an ulcer, and I'll surely develop one, if I repeatedly receive hints from trees which have gross errors of my family - including my own parents! I have left notes, messaged and when those are ignored, I scream through a megaphone hoping they'll hear. Nope, I can't do it any longer. EVERY tree has errors of my very close family. I have a public tree with the correct information, but somehow these morons have failed to find. Every few months I'll turn those hints back on to check if anyone has gotten the clue. Sadly, never changes.

As far as copying info, pictures or documents to my main working private tree, I never do so without asking permission, and offering my knowledge of our mutual family.

Re: Why have a PRIVATE PROFILE?

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 7:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Aug 2015 7:56PM GMT
Uh, I suspect a lot of private trees were made that way after doing hours and hours of work and paying $1000s of dollars in records access fees and records images and DNA tests and then discovering the 1st month they don't continue to pay ancestry.com for access to those records images they paid so much to access and linked to their trees that they no longer have access to those researched and linked records. They actually have to go through all this extra work of downloading the record image and embedding it like a personal photograph at which time it looses all the text translations and corrections other users have made to some of the entries as well as the original link to the ancestry.com tree.

However, from a purely independent point of view, the census images should be downloaded and embedded into your tree and then manually add the needed relevant references and notes since ancestry.com doesn't have to respect for their customers to have designed it that way. No one pays $20 a month expecting all their hours of work to disappear with a bunch of already researched but broken links in your family tree.

Re: Why have a PRIVATE PROFILE?

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 8:38PM GMT
Classification: Query
The Gimme-Gimme Generation speaks.

Re: Why have a PRIVATE PROFILE?

Posted: 3 Aug 2015 1:56AM GMT
Classification: Query
YOUR work hasn't disappeared. The ACCESS to ancestry database records disappears when the subscription ends. This is not rocket science. I pity your poor, poor clicky fingers who have to do all that work when you resume your subsciption. If onlly you used FTM, your poor, poor, overworked clicky fingers could rest and let the program download the images for you.

And it's ""lose", not "loose" in your usage above, genius.
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