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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I have enough of that to bore everyone to death. I started a family tree on Ancestry.com and have it available to others doing family research to access. All living relatives are private, and unpublished. Only dead ancestors can be researched.

I have had several people send a tanks for posting a photo of their great grand uncle or distant cousin. Ancestry.com is a rabbit hole time suck if you let it be. I went back 10 generations on a few family lines. Past that is pointless in my opinion. With a 1,024 ancestors after 10 generations the number of cousins is off the scale. Just spouses siblings of the ancestors make the genetic tree massive.


Great marketing!

I believe my aunt has my mom's side of the family shared on ancestry.com. I have my more limited tree on Ancestry too, although I can't remember if it's shared or not. I don't currently have an active account (can't see any of their data) but they keep my tree. I'd like to pay for access again and do some more research. It can be a deep rabbit hole. You have to be careful because some folks just add every recommended link even if they don't make sense. I've gotten hints that said something like "someone has so-and-so in their family tree and have spouse and parents." So I think, great, I can add some new folks to my tree, but then when I go and look at what they've got, the people that they have listed as parents were 5 years old or 95 years old when the relative was born. Clearly, they got a hint and just clicked "add to tree" or whatever the process is.