General Chat

I'm certainly not happy about my family tree and research being any more 'public' than it is now. There is a lot about this site that I don't much care for, e g like Len, my FR membership was automatically renewed without prior consultation because they'd changed the format, and I object to that. I sincerely hope that GR will do the decent thing and give up ample warning of any impending sale, so that we can remove our trees or cancel our memberships, if we wish to do so. I've already signed on with a new site, in anticipation of the worst happening here. CB >|<

Olde Crone I have Norton Internet security. This incorporates Antivirus Firewall Privacy control parental control. Antispam...which has ad blocking and pop up blocking. I think it can be bought on its own but not sure, but the whole package is far better than just the antivirus, and not much dearer either. Wouldnt be without it. Elaine x

Hi Len, You can delete your entire tree at the click of a button if you want to. I only keep a small tree on here anyway, so shan't bother to remove it. Those who want to keep their data their own are at less risk from GR than from Gencircles and ancestry world tree. Bob, I have no problem with sharing information but I'm b*****ed if some firm is going to make money out of my research by selling it on to others. Gwynne

Gwynne I thought once you put your tree on here it was the property of Gr to do what they want to do with it? The new owners would have the same rights as GR do now. I imagine they could sell your info now if they so wished ............................................................................ T & C By submitting any material to the content to the Genes Reunited Service, you are representing that you are fully entitled to do so; grant US a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-terminable licence to copy, modify, distribute, show in public and create derivative works from that material in any form, anywhere; and authorise us to adapt the relevant material in the course of doing so, and so WAIVE your moral rights to object to any derogatory treatment, or to be identified as the author, of the material in question.

Hi Elaine, That's why I only keep a very basic tree on here. Just baps, marriages and deaths, date and places. Only a few generations of direct ancestors and no siblings etc. The really interesting stuff I keep in family tree maker. In the past I have seen garbled versions of some of my early research (plus some mistakes) appear on gencircles and world family tree so I am a lot more wary when I share info now. I've also received photocopies of stuff I sent out to other researchers 5 or 6 years ago and had the person sending it claim it as their own research. My handwriting is dreadful and very distinctive. It wouldn't be a problem if people checked the information before adding it. I always try to remember to warn people to do this when I pass stuff on. A recent contact on this site was able to tell me a marriage passed on to me (but unchecked, as yet) was incorrect. I'm happy to share any info I have but there is a lot of bad, unchecked genealogy on the web and I don't want to add to it. Gwynne

PS. I think the site owners deserve every penny they get for having such a brilliant idea. Friends Reunited is the cash cow - not GR. Gwynne

Oh D*MN D*MN D*MN D*MN D*MN..................! I was gonna buy it. :-0((( Always missing the boat me!!! Deanna X

I think the sale is actually only for the Friends Reunited section of the brand - not all the different subsites. In all the press I've read on this it is the brand name mentioned and not the company name 'Happy Group Ltd' - and although some papers would refer to it as Friends Renuited to simplify things for readers the qualities and the business press would use a company name if it was the whole company up for sale.