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From: "Marianne Senecal" <>
Subject: RE: [WASH] My Ancestry
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 12:09:11 -0400


I have put part of my family on line with Gencircles and Rootsweb.


> [Original Message]
> From: Joyce Franke <>
> To: <>
> Date: 5/3/2004 12:16:52 AM
> Subject: [WASH] My Ancestry
>
> I have been thinking of submitting my ancestry to somewhere online, not
sure
> where, but RootsWeb seems most likely. Over the years, especially before
the
> Internet, I had sent GEDCOMs of my ancestry to various people. I now find
> they have submitted them to Ancestry World Tree, to Family Tree Maker, and
> to the LDS Ancestral File! I know they are mine, as they have my notes,
and
> things that no one else has (from family Bibles, with my notations, etc.),
> and my own name, and my grandchildren's names! I was shocked the first
time
> I saw that! I asked to have the private information removed, but they
> refused. The man who submitted my info is deceased. He got my GEDCOM from
> someone else, who will not reply to my e-mails. When the man found out he
> was dying, he uploaded EVERYTHING he had! Since the man is deceased,
> RootsWeb or Ancestry or whoever, will not remove MY NAME and information
> unless I get permission from the deceased man's estate! Unbelievable! But
> since all this out there, and some of it garbled (like Ruth is the husband
> and Titus is the wife!), I have decided to put my ancestry out there with
my
> name and e-mail address on it. At least then if anyone has questions, they
> will be able to contact me. I will not put all my notes, though, as there
is
> private stuff on that. Yes, you can find it on the dead man's site, but I
> don't need to add to it! We have already had two cases where our credit
card
> number was stolen off the Internet and an attempt was made to raid our
> savings account. I don't need any more problems!
>
> If anyone has any suggestions about a good place to upload my ancestry, I
> would love to hear about it!
>
> Joyce
>
>
>
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