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Lindsey*

Lindsey* Report 22 Jun 2011 14:44

Well you can always adjust the privacy setting so he cant see what you have put !

Researching:
For better results please give all the details ,name, date place as you can {pictures by me }

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 22 Jun 2011 14:43

Sounds like a nutter to me (spoken in my professional nurse capacity). Obviously suffering from a severe case of nerd syndrome.

I see it has you do, what you put on your tree is your own business. You can put completely wrong info (sorry, information!!) and spell everything as you please if that is your inclination. Nobody has to look do they!

As a Brummie, I am happy with Birmingham or B'ham. If he likes things olde worlde why not wind him up by using the traditional Brummagem?! Or better still go native and abbreviate to Brum?

Jan

Researching:
Myatt, Hanks, Eccleston, Powell, Clungunford, Birmingham

Kuros

Kuros Report 22 Jun 2011 14:40

I'm afraid I'd tell him that it was my tree and I'll enter the information in whatever way I choose. It's up to him whether he wants to use it or not and, if the way some of it is entered offends him, then he can do his own research and enter it as he wishes.
In other words, put up or shut up.

wisechild

wisechild Report 22 Jun 2011 14:34

Yesterday I recieved some info from a family researcher who has a family bible. I spent a couple of hours checking the info & inputting it on my Ancestry tree but didn´t have time to finish,intending to go back to it today.
This morning I recieved a message from someone who is doing a 1 name study into one of the surnames I had input, basically telling me that I wasn´t doing it as he would like it & telling me to go back through my tree & make amendments to place names etc because he prefers the Victorian spellings.
I wrote back & said that my tree was for my use & while I have no objection to other people using the info I would expect them to check it before adding it to their trees & that I would manage my tree as I choose.
Got another message this morning more or less instructing me to go back through my tree & amend all the enrtries for Birmingham from B´ham.
I´m afraid I was a bit curt in my reply, especially as,as far as I can see, he has no connection with my family & the name he has picked up on is the maiden name of one of my ancestors wives
Do you think Ancestry have started employing people to police the trees looking for spelling mistakes & typo´s?

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