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From: "Audrey O'Keefe" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-WORKHOUSE-HOSP] Pirated Information
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:45:06 -0000
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Hi
this happened to me - a distant relative to an in law asked could he have
access to my tree (haven't seen this person for over 30 years - he got my
details from Genesunited) -

I only gave him a little information but he forwarded it to everyone - I
was very upset he promised he would delete all my families living relatives
from his tree - he did but - but genesunited informs me he has reinstated
details

thank goodness I never gave him all my research.

I still get upset thinking about what he did................
I deleted all my tree from Genesunited - only name on tree is mine. I use
a different software.
I would not recommend Genesunited.
Audrey

----- Original Message -----
From: "hamilton" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-WORKHOUSE-HOSP] Pirated Information


> Dear Dennis
>
> I do know how you feel. I let someone look at my tree and the next thing
> I
> was getting matches back from genesreunited.
>
> I think Genesreunited is a good site to connect with people and further
> research. I too learned the hard way I no longer give access to my tree
> unless I can see theirs first to see if they have actually done some work.
>
> Perhaps you could ask the person to tick the box that allows those living
> not to be shown, I do not show living people, in some way it is an
> invasion
> of their privacy.
>
> I wonder if Genesreunited would ask him to take the information off.
>
> My thoughts are with you, it is very unfair what has happened and show the
> integrity of the person concerned.
>
> regards
>
> Mary
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DennisAllen05" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:17 AM
> Subject: [UK-WORKHOUSE-HOSP] Pirated Information
>
>
>>
>> WARNING; Pick your friends very carefully.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have been collecting information tiny piece by tiny piece for many
>> years
>> and was very proud to have assembled a fairly complex tree to pass on to
>> my
>> descendants. Perhaps I have been naive in thinking I had done well. After
>> speaking with a fellow genealogist in Suffolk a few days ago, she asked
>> if
>> I
>> used GenesReunited, my reply was no but I decided to try it anyhow just
>> to
>> see what it was about.
>>
>>
>>
>> I was amazed to see my entire family tree including all my notes were
>> already there entered by a distant relative who I had PRIVATELY exchanged
>> information with. When I exchange information I always ask that nothing
>> is
>> passed on without my permission, which in this case was not given. I
>> usually
>> welcome questions from other genealogists and don't mind filling in a few
>> blanks for them but this experience has made me sick to my stomach and I
>> feel like giving up altogether. I know this will not really happen but I
>> don't
>> think I will be passing anything on ever again. To hell with them and let
>> them do it the hard way.
>>
>>
>>
>> After asking why my tree had been put on GenesReunited including many
>> living
>> relatives including my children and grandchildren also including all my
>> personal notes, he sent the following reply.
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello, Dennis,
>>
>> Is my great age having a big effect? Are you not the Dennis Allen
>> () who sent me much of this material?
>>
>> But perhaps not, as I see your GR tree has only two children of Wilfred
>> Allen and Marjotie Ogle instead of nine.
>>
>> (Also, I see, you are infected by the dreaded "living relation" virus,
>> the
>> antithesis of what GR is suppose to be about, and a refusal to fave the
>> reality that these details have already been revealed in birth notices,
>> parish registers, IGI detail amd so on.)
>>
>> KR
>>
>> Robert Rodrigo ()
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello, Dennis,
>>
>> Thanks for your GR message. Why are you surprised?
>>
>> RK
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Be very careful who you share with, there are parasites out there waiting
>> to
>> feed from your hard won information.
>>
>>
>> Dennis Allen
>> Scarborough
>>
>> Totally Pissed Off
>>
>>
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