The Other Site
Posted by on Monday, December 5, 2011
While I am explaining family tree websites, I may as well also explain the other family tree site on the web that has my name on it. I don't remember what the site is called, which indicates how much involvement I have had with it :)
This one is even older than the Rootsweb site - I think it dates back about 15 years now - and I have never had anything to do with it.
When I was just starting on family history research, I found a great program to store and organize all of the data. So I carefully entered my entire family tree, and used it as my primary records. I liked the software, and everything went smoothly.
Then they added new features to take advantage of the growth of the internet. One of these new features was an automatic family tree website creator that would take the information from the program and the users computer, and post it for the world to see. The idea I suppose was to generate a worldwide family tree that included all families.
But they didn't necessarily make it clear that the information would be automatically published when the upgrade came out- in fact it was several months later when I was searching for family history that I was shocked to discover my own tree online!
Unfortunately the terms and conditions of the updates probably allowed them to do it, so there was no recourse. It really doesn't matter anyway, since the people named (at least at that time) were already dead and so they wouldn't complain. But I have never maintained that website, and IMO it has absolutely nothing to do with me at all.
This one is even older than the Rootsweb site - I think it dates back about 15 years now - and I have never had anything to do with it.
When I was just starting on family history research, I found a great program to store and organize all of the data. So I carefully entered my entire family tree, and used it as my primary records. I liked the software, and everything went smoothly.
Then they added new features to take advantage of the growth of the internet. One of these new features was an automatic family tree website creator that would take the information from the program and the users computer, and post it for the world to see. The idea I suppose was to generate a worldwide family tree that included all families.
But they didn't necessarily make it clear that the information would be automatically published when the upgrade came out- in fact it was several months later when I was searching for family history that I was shocked to discover my own tree online!
Unfortunately the terms and conditions of the updates probably allowed them to do it, so there was no recourse. It really doesn't matter anyway, since the people named (at least at that time) were already dead and so they wouldn't complain. But I have never maintained that website, and IMO it has absolutely nothing to do with me at all.