Someone has put my tree on Ancestry

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As a holiday home provider for the former PM Cliff Richard will probably succeed!

[Cell]

I'm in Queensland and have dealt with copyright solicitors (p.s they cost a bomb ! I was out of pocket for a few $$$- but they were worth it)_, nothing to do with genealogy. It was to do with a design on a product  ( won't go into it  - but basically you do own anything you have written, and designed - you do not need to take out a copyright here in Australia)

 The problem is if someone did breach your copyright what do you do about it?

Andy


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You get a copyright solicitor ( who only deal with copright issues and nothing else) . there is good one here in Brisbane which I have used .  You can stop the person immediately. If  they do not abide by the letter, you can sue in a court of law ( please beware this does cost heaps - you pay for the judge, the court fees - if you win that person will have to pay all your out of pocket costs of course).

There is not much that you can do about it if you are not prepared to take it to court and pay for the expenses of initially taking it to court, plus the huge  expense of the solicitors

Kind regards:)

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As usual stay out of the way of solicitors at all costs if at all possible.

[LizzieW]

I don't usually bother to look at the trees on Ancestry, but did yesterday and found one where the person had his grandmother as one of my ancestors.  He had the correct parents for my ancestor but apart from that his information was wrong.  He had the wrong grandparents for my ancestor and the wrong husband.

I wrote to him thinking he wouldn't reply and that even if he did, he'd be annoyed that I'd pointed out that basically his whole tree apart from his parents was wrong.  Instead, this morning I received an lovely e-mail from him thanking me for giving him the information and saying

 

The information I have picked up in my tree has been from accepting links from other trees and I was aware that there were some discrepancies but couldn't figure out what the actual facts were.

I've written back stating that as my ancestor and his grandmother had a very common Lincolnshire name, that he just needs to research further and find out his grandmother's real background. 

It seems that even WDYTYA programmes have not shown people that they need to get BMD certs and follow the various census etc. before they can sort out their trees.

Lizzie

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I sent some family history information to a lady who was running a newsletter connected to my mother's family. She didn't read or use it carefully, and lo and behold, according to her I had a half brother, 20 years older than me who was not my half brother at all, and whose son was as surprised as I was at the suposed relationship. Now corrected with apologies.