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From: Joan Lyons <>
Subject: Re: [UK-WORKHOUSE-HOSP] Pirated Information
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:45:55 -0500
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Your not alone it seems with this problem. Maybe hundreds have been
burnt!!
On Nov 4, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Audrey O'Keefe wrote:

> 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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>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> Internal Virus Database is out of date.
>> Checked by AVG.
>> Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.8.4/1749 - Release Date:
>> 10/27/2008
>> 7:57 AM
>>
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