I am currently researching the EVANS and POTTER families who left South Wales for NSW, Australia on the Osterley from London, 22nd March,1927 and their descendants. Also Stivens family in Australia descended from George Tupper Stivens and Amelia Vincent. Also Buffrey Family. Also Descendants and Ancestors of Frederick Howard and Ethel Nellie (Johnson) Howard.
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I have some questions about putting up living relatives on WT while aIl the privacy settings exist, most people in our family are very reluctant to do so. Is there a non web based family tree program that I can use for these living relatives that we could share around and maintain that could be uploaded into WikiTree in the future ?
Some have asked me if Family Search and Ancestry harvest info from WT .
I may have missed it but I couldn’t find answers to these questions yesterday.
Thanks in anticipation.
Liz
Liz, all living people (and this could include people who do not have death dates and could possibly be alive) will automatically be listed as private. You would be the only person able to see their information (unless you add someone as a co-manager of the profiles or include someone on their trusted list). It does not matter which program one uses (I use Family Tree Maker), WikiTree rules for living people are in line with EU privacy rules. We can’t even discuss them in our forum.
Liz, I don’t know if other sites harvest information from WikiTree (I don’t think they can), but I do know that *individuals* can if the profiles are too far back to protect with privacy. For a while I used WikiTree for my own personal database, but never posted my stuff in another site.
This is an Internet-wide problem in more than just genealogy. There is plagiarism all over the Web. This is true even for photos people post in one genealogy site. It’s a problem.
If you want a more definitive answer, you can contact info @ wikitree . com. The folks there will know.
Thank you for joining us! I wanted to check in with you to see how things are going. How do you like WikiTree so far? Have the tips in the New Member How To Pages been helpful or have they left you with questions?
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Cheryl ~ WikiTree Messenger
P.S. To find reliable sources for your profiles, go to the Family Tree & Tools tab; select Genealogy Research and scroll down near the bottom of that list and select Research with RootsSearch. There are over 20 websites to access from there.
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I have some questions about putting up living relatives on WT while aIl the privacy settings exist, most people in our family are very reluctant to do so. Is there a non web based family tree program that I can use for these living relatives that we could share around and maintain that could be uploaded into WikiTree in the future ? Some have asked me if Family Search and Ancestry harvest info from WT . I may have missed it but I couldn’t find answers to these questions yesterday. Thanks in anticipation. Liz
Hope this helps,
Pip
However you didn’t answer re Ancestry, FamilySearch, Find my past etc harvesting my info from WIki Tree. Thank you.
This is an Internet-wide problem in more than just genealogy. There is plagiarism all over the Web. This is true even for photos people post in one genealogy site. It’s a problem.
If you want a more definitive answer, you can contact info @ wikitree . com. The folks there will know.
Kind regards,
Pip