Saturday 23 June 2012

Weekend Website Review & Rating

Well I was gonna wait on this review and see if things would get better for my genealogy friend concerning this website. Todays rating and review is Geni.com

If you are looking to keep your information private on that site, forget it. They have some sort of status for people called curator. A curator can basically do whatever they please on the site including changing dates, names etc of people on your tree without your permission they can also merge profiles in your tree with other profiles without your permission. They can also recreate/restore your entire tree and pictures after you have deleted your tree. Which goes against Geni.com's Terms of Service agreement. Anyone can be a curator. Your neighbour or the strange man down the street can be one and get all of your information. This website is also not registered with TrustE

I do have a friend who has experienced a true horror story concerning this site and I will write about it one of these days soon.

I took a look at this website myself for genealogy purposes. It does have a nice layout, easy on the eyes and easy to navigate. You can also get your own gedcom exported at this website. Unfortunately the fact of the curators on the site going against Terms Of Service and privacy rules, it looks to be a nice site that can draw any genealogist in. I would not trust alot of the stuff that is posted as this site does not have listed census records and such.

I rate this website on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being awesome....a 2!

Sorry folks, when it all comes down to it, you want to work on a trusted website that lists actual facts and good admin to help when needed and not forced. Genealogist do like privacy for the living relatives and this site looks to have a block feature but like I said Curators are above any other user there and can access the private stuff on anyone's tree. Becareful.

Saturday 16 June 2012

Weekend Website Review & Rating

Ancestry.ca has got to be my favorite genealogy website. Its excellent in many different ways but I find it great for people just starting off. Its easy to navigate, and easy to expand your tree in very little time. To all you new people out there, just dont rely on hints. Looks for actual records with proof of that family member you are searching I came across a few of my actual living relatives on ancestry. This is a very excellend website and they also offer a DNA service that Im on a waiting list for.

So I give this website a 9/10 for experts and beginners alike.



Monday 11 June 2012

My Passion

Well, I've seen alot of blogs on genealogy so I figured I would try my hand at it and see how it goes. Let me introduce myself and how I got started.....

I am a  Canadian Genealogist, my passion in genealogy all started in my grade 9 history class when my teacher became very interested in my background due to my last name. He engaged me in conversation about my last name being Polish. Little did I know then, I was far from Polish. We did family trees and talked in class about our backgrounds. This teacher made everything about history and where we came from very interesting to learn about. History became one of my best classes. Today I often wish I would have continued on with school and became a historian instead of health care. I also wish I could track down that teacher from long ago and tell him all that I have discovered, I think he would be very impressed.
I love genealogy, I love learning about where we came from, I think its amazing how all of these people came together and eventually came together to make you. I love the different stories that you can discover about each family in your tree. I love learning how they came to North America. Your family tree is like your own personal non-fiction story. Its also something special that generations after you can appreciate and hopefully continue on.

In this blog I will write about different things concerning my genealogy, like different websites, stories, current searches I am doing and other things.