The only cure I can see for this is to post my work up myself, quote all the sources with attached images as proof, and hope people are discerning enough to see the difference; but what is to stop someone downloading it, posting it up later as their own work, and filling it full of so many factual and typographical errors and sweeping assumptions of their own that my efforts become negated? or else, as one other poster has said, trying to flog it on EBay...
I don't understand!
If you are so worried about people nicking your work....why do you post it at all?
Indi....thick as a brick!...as me old Ma used to say!
I don't think my point has quite been taken on board here - I don't post it, and never have. Some other little toad has done it for me, without my prior knowledge, and previous to his latest pangs of conscience/fear of reprisals which I suspect he has had fron his family in the US of A or whatever, certain parts of it went up without my consent. I am merely postulating the theory in my quote above that the only way to correct inaccurate data online is to say that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em - neither of which I find a particularly aytractive prospect.
Frankly, I have no desire to post anything on the 'Net, in the light of past and recent developments - I don't post it anywhere, never have, and anyone having read my previous posts thoroughly would realise that.
However - as info. regarding family has been posted up by people to whom I supplied it by e-mail - supplied over two years ago I might add, in the days when I still felt there was a certain code of conduct in operation with conditions attached to the supply of said data (albeit unenforceable, but one can hope people might do the decent thing - ignored at one point) - and as it now looks as though this situation may be perpetuated by someone else who has altered the data she downloaded from the person to whom I supplied it herself to make it significantly less accurate, there is a problem here that can clearly only be resolved by the original researcher, i.e. me.
Obviously I have a choice - do what I do not wish to do, and correct the material by posting it up myself in its original and accurate form, or let everyone else get on with it and disseminate flawed data on the 'net.
Frankly, I'm bored to death with the whole wretched issue - as long as the borrowers of my material don't later backtrack and suddenly decide they are finally going to start attributing parts of their trees to me because they realise they've got it wrong and need a scapegoat on whom to blame it, that's fine. Get on with it, guys...do your little thing, but don't expect my sanction or future co-operation.
Brambletye
Not thick as a brick, Indi, funnily enough - I got my qualifications back in the days when they weren't being handed out like sweets. I was just rather too trusting in the past regarding people who turned out to be quite happy to take what ever I had to offer and started shutting down the contact when I'd obviously served my purpose. I think my worst sin here was to be naive enough to believe my views and requests would actually be honoured.
Tempus meum tero...
