Good idea...bad implementation. Anyone who's used Ancestry.com for more than one tree knows that Ancestry will list results from your other trees when you are searching on a person who exists in all of your trees. So, you'd think before they implement Member Connect, the new social networking feature, that they would correct this. I mean, I'm a programmer too...how hard is it to exclude results from trees associated with the same username as the one conducting the search? Apparently, it's really hard because they didn't fix it. Witness:
I log onto Ancestry.com and am excited to see that Member Connect has found one other person searching for Major Reddick and that person has records and timeline events. Great! I may have found a new cousin. Click....click through the "Welcome to Member Connect" intro...and there it is:
The other person searching for Major Reddick is ME! They gave me a result from my other tree...
Ancestry, get it together please....
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HAHAHAHA...I know that feeling...it's like a balloon that gets blown up..then gets popped. So frustrating.
Memberconnect is the worse thing that has happened to the genealogy community. I have been with ancestry for ten years and I liked working with the records and maybe finding a connection but there are some people that do not even connect to you that are taking every photo or info or tree you may have just because it has a common name in it like Smith or Johnson. This has happened to me and now somehow because I had shared a photo with someone else their name comes up as original submitter. I have had the one person that I did not invite for anything change my own ancestor information around to try and fit her tree. She does not know what she is doing. She did not even contact me to ask if I could possibly connect to her and now she has also taken from my granddaughter's page which includes my info of course but also on the other side of her family that has nothing to do with this person. I have actively complained on the ancestry blog as have others but so far it has not been changed. No one should be able to just download all of your photos with a click of a mouse when they do not even ask or if the person is not even in their line. I will probably leave Ancestry and it is a shame because I have many documents, including, revolutionary war, civil war, and many others to share but because of people like this person I cannot do it. When my grandchildren and great grandchildren, years from now, research and find my research I want it to be correct or as correct as I could find it and this person is taking photos of my grandmother and putting her as a wife of a person she was never married to. Sorry but be careful on Ancestry. This is not genealogy anymore.
I agree with Bertsie's comment because I have gone through this with Ancestry myself. I have one person in particular who added information to her tree from mine. When I thought it might be a connection, I contacted her to see if we could exchange information. She actually just added the name because it was the same as someone in her family, but if youlook at the record, it clearly states that they were African-American. I asked if it was possible that her family was mulatto, but then she stopped replying to me. Later on, I noticed that she was still adding records from my tree to hers and they were all African American. I get so angry because I pay for my membership to Ancestry and when I complain to them they don't have a resolution other than making your tree private. Now I won't have the opportunity to link to other members that would not be stealing from my tree! So unfair!!!
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