One World Tree, Indeed is not to be trusted. - Bill
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:59 PM, <campbell-request(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
of all the trees on Ancestry, OneWorldTree is the first and foremost one
> NOT TO TRUST!!! Ancestry created it in order to be "helpful". as an
example,
> you can look at my genealogica tree.
> oh, I raged at them when I saw it. they took my data from my Rootsweb
tree,
> stuck it in OWT without asking permission, and jambed totally unrelated
> people that I never had in my tree
> onto it. and they've done that to hundreds of peoples trees, mangling
them
> irrevocably, and they refuse to remove OWT, or even make corrections even
> though lots of people have
> complained. never, ever use OneWorldTree. EVER! you'll get some really
bad
> data out of it. far better to do the actual document research yourself,
and
> not even glance at OWT because it
> can misdirect you terribly.
>
> at least, look for individual's trees at WorldConnect, Ancestry (other
than
> OWT) or in people's personal websites online. then you can figure out how
> accurate the tree is and what you
> should do from that point on.
>