Sharing genealogical information with others allows you to:

  • preserve information,
  • catch mistakes,
  • have a backup,
  • collaborate with others.

Keeping all your genealogical information to yourself may seem like a good idea, but researching in total isolation increases the chance you don’t find what you are looking for.

Riley (the dog in the illustration) may be more “in-your-face” about sharing than genealogists are, but it’s still a good reminder.

Categories:

Tags:

4 Responses

  1. by doing so you are allowing others to put what they want i am in my 70 and have a huge amount of family pictures , had a picture of my moms family when the kids were in 17-18-etc , i put it up and the next thing i know they are changing the people , my mother became my aunt,notified them and told them they were wrong they in turn told me this is what ancestry had it listed , no ancestry didnt know but i did, ,called ancestry and it was stated can not change anyones trees , so here i sit my mother is my aunt.going to make the future researches trust that tree or even mine ,

  2. What Barbara said. Especially when people download my pictures and then upload them as their own. And the people who add my information to their locked tree. I have no idea who they are associating that information with.

  3. Sharing information with family members has been very rewarding for me. I highly recommend trying even though it can be frustrating or rebuffed. I successfully made contact with two second cousins and two first cousins once removed that I had never had direct contact with before. They gave life to what had just been names and dates. And last night, my second cousin found an old family album with a gravestone picture that finally broke down one of my brick walls!!
    Riley needs to come play with my dog Bailey!

  4. I GUESS MY FAMILY IS JUST CHEAP AND STEAL ALL OUR INFORMATION THAT WE PAY FOR AND THEY NEED TO LOOK LIKE THEY ARE THE PATRON SAINT OF RESEARCH , THATS THE SAD PART , THEY HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER BUT PRAISE TO THEMSELVES AS THEY DONT HAVE ANYTHING TO SHARE BECAUSE ITS YOURS , BUT I RATHER LIVE IN A TRUE HONEST WORLD THAN THEIR PRETEND FAKE WORLD

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Get the Genealogy Tip of the Day Book
Get the More Genealogy Tip of the Day Book
Recent Comments
Archives