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I encourage folks who maintain family trees to support FamilySearch.org and WikiTree.com! Both are free!

"I have had alot of frustration over people changing my tree and adding information that has been incorrect."

?There is no way to stop that, as far as I am aware. That would be in conflict with the concept of peer reviewed trees so I doubt that it is possible. The best thing to do is to form partnerships with other competent researchers of your line who understand how to apply standards of genealogical evidence to assist you. I suggest that you link supporting primary record evidence in Sources to support your conclusions and explain it in either or both the Life Sketch and Collaborate > Notes. It will save time if you can easily point to your proofs.

Kevin

BTW, you should avoid linking in Sources on Family Search to records which require a paid subscription on sites like Ancestry, My Heritage, etc., and link to the records on Family Search. If you can find a primary record on those sites, you likely also find it, and much more, on Family Search.

The power of Family Search, and to a lesser extent, WikiTree, is that it is possible to easily support your conclusions with primary record evidence that other contributors can easily view. Unfortunately, it is possible to link basically anything (or nothing) as a record in Sources on Family Search, but serious researchers have the ability to add, edit or remove them. It is the best option for presenting genealogy research, based on easily verified primary record evidence, short of self publishing.?

That being said, yeah, anyone can put anything on either site, and do.

Kevin

Here is the link to my MRCA, William Daniel, on Family Search:



In Sources, researchers can examine every primary record referred to in William's biography. The actual record, not a transcript in a secondary source, not an interpretation by a third party, the actual primary record. The only thing that I like better about WikiTree is that it is possible to include links in the biographies to sources, which can be URLs to the primary record on Family Search.

These features give researchers the most power to publish and show proof of their research aside from self publishing.

But, yes, some compiler can, and often has, messed this up five minutes from now. That is why I follow most entries in my tree and frequently audit them for any changes. I correspond with several like minded researchers from my tree so that it does not rely solely on me to manage the integrity of "my" tree.

Kevin

BTW, I hate the new formatting of Family Search!

Kevin