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.
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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 ,
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.
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!
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