So Tired of People changing info on my Page
What can be done to those that make changes to your family histories ?
I wish there was a button to block them - hmmm - This is a big mistake to allow people to make changes on your page.
Some people think they know your genealogy, when they don't even know their own. Hmmm
It is a painful, devastating hurt, to undo it all.
I guess everyone will just have to wait for the Lord to come again, I am thinking of permanently deleting my profile, again.
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My great-great-grandfather exists in 1006 public trees on Ancestry and about 500 public trees on My Heritage. There is no way to make sure all the information on him on all those trees is correct. I am so glad that I can watch just one profile in Family Tree, along with the other 12 people following his profile, and make sure that that profile contains the best, most correct information for him. I really like this aspect of Family Tree and that it is fully collaborative so that any of us watching his profile can quickly correct anything needed.
But since his profile is so thoroughly documented and sourced, it is extremely stable. And its 99 sources and 73 memories make it far more valuable than any other profile for him on any other site. This is all due to the fact that the 130 contributors to his record have one place to put everything they have and know.
Family Tree is the best thing that has ever happened to online family trees.
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I have an ancestor, David Richardson, L2DZ-M2T where someone used the 1860 US census and made all people residing at the household his children, regardless of surname, age or birth location. I believe the person who did this was a family Search Volunteer. If so, maybe they should have a basic understanding of what they are doing.
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The basic concept of the FamilySearch Family Tree is one tree for all. As such, it is fully open-edit and collaborative.
If you prefer a tree that only you can access, FamilySearch offers a personal tree option, now in Beta testing. You can find the details here: https://www.familysearch.org/en/labs/ under "User Owned Tree Feature."
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Ohhh, if we could only go back as it was once before, where no one can do such back then. But now this is the outcome.
And going back to the drawing board again and again and again. When it was just right back then, now, many conflicts will follow, and the work of the Lord is frustrated.
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The FamilySearch Family Tree has been a collaborative tree since its introduction.
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I thank you, as is spoken, to collaborate, but to make changes is a heartbreaking act. To consult, I would have adjusted and considered the sources. But to labor hard and diligently to input correct name places and correct spelling of family names, and in an instant blink of the act of typing, the desire is no more fruitful.
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Collaboration often involves making changes. If you want a tree that no one else can change, please investigate the CET personal tree option.
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Regarding what happened to David Richardson, isn't it nice that this happened on FamilySearch where it could be quickly corrected? Just imagine the trouble if someone had done this in a private tree on another website and before you noticed fifty other people had copied the errors to their trees and you had to contact all fifty one people, most of whom would never read your message, to try to get them to correct it as the error percolated further and further as it was copied to even more trees.
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I am very thankful that this is a fully collaborative tree. I have found distant cousins with additional information and memories from their ancestors that I never even knew existed. Now, I can share that information with my descendants as well. I often have to use the Merge Analysis and Recent Changes to correct errors, but that can be done without too much frustration. The Lord recognizes effort and I know it will all work out in the end.
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In my country collaboration is, we council and consult with each other then come to an agreement, then we make changes as agreed upon. Not someone just go on your page and make changes according to their knowledge of someone else’s tree. I don’t know you, you don’t know me. So what makes you think, that you know my ancestors for you to make changes. Hmmm
I put my royal line in FamilySearch, because I trust my Church’s system. To have the work done for my ancestors, and not to have someone correct me of my records. I only ask, if you are related in some way or another, then input your info so that I may see if you are indeed connected to the royal line.
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Those royal lines will always be a problem because hundreds of thousands of people connect into them, all of whom are convinced they, personally, have the correct information while not even expert historians agree on everything regarding them. And the further back the more trouble there is. I don't know if it's still going on but Charlemagne, at one point, was having his name changed about a dozen times daily.
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In my family, our records are sought by many. Why, because it contains the fullness and complete royal lines. If I was to commit its fullness, there are those with ugly intentions that will do such deeds. Of discrediting the truth for which they cannot hold. As it is said in Manu’a, we give some things, and keep all things.
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