Here is an adaptation from another post I have made, and let it be a lesson to me...
Most of our family info/tree is eventually being shared with family in the form of a booklet, once it is done - not much is online, but a lot of it won't be, not now - I'm afraid we've been stung.
One little **** (supply your own noun) posted up all we'd sent him (a) without asking (b) without informing us (c) put up references to living relatives, on our side and in the USA (d) posted up a personal letter from someone else in the USA, which insulted one of the others over there and probably caused a family rift (implying someone else is a bit dim isn't exactly going to endear you, but the poor man never expected to see it online, I'm certain) (e) in spite of having been asked to stop at gt gt grandparents if anything ever did go up, put up my husband's parents, grandparents and any siblings of either generation he'd been given, luckily the damage wasn't as bad as it could have been - husband's surviving uncle could have taken a very dim view indeed. I guess your man thought the others were fair game because they were dead, but he did know in advance he'd been asked not to do it, so he ignored us.
We discovered it by accident when we found it all on Ancestry Trees.
Not only that, we also discovered that he had found out a lot more on the USA connections since he heard from us last, and hadn't even bothered to e-mail us to let us know - he stopped responding to our messages.
All the offending material has now been removed, but so have all the attributions - everything we gave him backwards of the 1880 USA Census, the last time I looked, was up there as "Xxx's Research", i.e. his own.
Thanks, mate - you had damn all but guesses back beyond 1880, until we came along...
We had the proof that some people basically don't bother with the DIY route on a trip we made to a Records Office at which we are regulars. We spent the whole week in the same room listening to a couple of people who talked incessantly at a high rate of knots and decibels, and on the last day, when the archivist was looking somewhat peed off, we mentioned these two to him. His response was "They've got 300 years' worth of ancestors between them, and this is the first time they've ever set foot in a Records Office".
They were looking for the rich and famous, from what we could hear (and we could hear! believe me). Only problem is, for every belted earl or Norman lordling, there's going to be 50,000 scrofulous peasants - and as great as it would be to have Lord Edmund Blackadder on your tree, likelihood is you'll end up with Baldrick...
