Donna,
While Ancestry is profit driven, I have not heard it will shut down its on line Family
Trees. They are shutting down Family Tree Maker, a genealogy program, because sales have
dropped.
Ancestry.com wanted those people to go to their online version and pay. But many
are looking else where.
I have played with MyHeritage Family Tree (MH FT) and I am not very impressed. It is far
too easy to accept their match recommendations even though they are wrong so often. While
the site offers more than FamilySearch Family Tree, FS FT is catching up.
While the push is to have your genealogy with online collaborative trees. There are many
problems with it. For example: FS FT has far too many cooks, chiefs, et cetera where
often indiscriminate merging goes on. As mentioned MH FT has a high match errors which
leads to bad trees. There are pluses and minuses with each on line version. And it will
take some time before they offer the same amount of creative control a decent genealogy
program can offer.
I believe that generally speaking the better documented a line is, the better the
accuracy. FS FT and far too many other on line trees are void of documentation or cite
other on line trees as their sources.
I prefer a balanced approach. I use a genealogy program to keep control of what I do. But,
I also have a genealogy program that allows me to connect to FS FT and link to records
there. It also allows a collaborative option via the Cloud. I have used it but it can be
time consuming it you have too many contributors. I like this limited approach, but I do
it primarily for my lines and one cousin line. And I can patrol those limited lines to
defend them as needed.
I also use the various on line trees (MH FT, FS FT, WeRelate and others) and try to focus
on the key immigrants. I correct, introduce, and educate hoping that people get the idea
of using better sources. But, I can not be every where all the time. And at first it is
very time consuming trying to correct the errors of the past. And far too often someone
will cite an earlier version of me arguing with the present me.
I can not tell you how often someone looks at the two William Carpenters from Wiltshire,
England, the mid-1630ish immigrants, and merges them together. To them they see no
difference between the arrival of different ships in different years, different spouse
names, over lapping children dates and a child from each family marrying each other.
They often start their argument that both William Carpenters are buried in Providence, RI
and they must be the same person. William Carpenter of Rehoboth, MA did die in Rehoboth
and was buried in Rehoboth. But many decades later the state lines were straightened and
his remains now reside slightly inside Providence, RI.
Going back to
Ancestry.com and their FTs ... Too many do not know that they can share
their data via GEDCOM and move it where ever they want to move it. And that when you leave
Ancestry FT without properly closing the account they will – after 1 year of non-payment –
consider it abandoned property and use it.
So, me thinks I have written far too much. But, you did ask what I thought about MY FT.
And maybe I got carried away?
I hope this helps.
John R. Carpenter
Carpenter Cousins Project
http://carpentercousins.com
From: Donna & Robert Klaesson
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 4:59 PM
To: John R Carpenter ; carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project on Facebook
Hi John, I am wondering what you think about MyHeritage Family Tree? We hear that we
are probably going to have to change from
Ancestry.com to a new site? What do you think?
We have not yet transferred our Family Tree site info over to Ancestry but are thinking
now that we should NOT make that transfer? Any thoughts? Thanks! Donna Klaesson
----- Original Message -----
From: John R Carpenter via
To: Rootsweb Carpenter
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 3:41 PM
Subject: [CARPENTER] Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project on Facebook
Hello,
I am trying out a Facebook lead in for the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project.
Please see:
https://www.facebook.com/carpentercousinsYDNA/
Thank you,
John R. Carpenter
Carpenter Cousins Project
http://carpentercousins.com
Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project
http://www.carpentercousins.com/carpdna.htm
Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project lineage page
http://www.carpentercousins.com/generallineage.htm
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