Don't people realise how much it hurts

[Flattybasher9]

Personally, I find this thread strange.
I have an ex-directory number.
I do not have my name or adress on the open census forms, as I asked them not to post the information.
I do not openly post my details on the internet.
I have 3 e-mail accounts.
I have one large family tree which I keep private.
I am on the telephone preferential service.
So basically, I have done all I can.
My ISP's have been selling my e-mail addresses for years. (Common practice)
Every time I buy something over the internet, I am in the situation of losing control of my e-mail address, depending on the seller(s) and their privacy policy.
If I wish to share any information about myself with anyone else, I bear the consequences of said sharing, and accept what has/will happen/ed as the primary action came from myself.
We have just been given a copy of our family tree done by another member of our family. It's a load of rubbish. This family member cannot even get the information correct regarding living relatives, never mind the dead ones.
He is happy spending money on special binders and printing etc.
We do not care one bit. It changes nothing.
It is just like history. That is only the account of the person who recorded it. In reality it may not have happened that way.

Regards

Malky

[Joy Dean]

Concerning photographs - I realise that once a photo has been passed on to a contact with mutual ancestry, one cannot say don't publicise it. However, what I did find strange was when I saw a photo (taken kindly for me by someone else) of my great-great-great-grandparents' gravestone that had my name printed on the front of the photograph. I did not take kindly to that and asked the people that had the photo in their trees to remove my name; they didn't take kindly to my request.

Edited (omitted words)

Then I asked ancestry to ask people to remove my name that someone had printed.

[msr]

Did they Joy?

[Joy Dean]

No. They wanted me to prove who I was, that I was the named person on the photo, quoted various copyright statements to me and said once I had given proof, then they would consider taking it to their court somewhere.
It all sounded very complicated and long-winded.

[Joy Dean]

I don't know if this link will work - http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/4893731/person/118846551/media/48b26460-9d99-41ed-a0c0-ea8a1ff34016?pg=32768&pgpl=pid
"I would be interested to know how you came by this photo of mine, and who put my name on it. Thank you."

I received no reply on this occasion.

[aghadowey]

Think the link only works if you are a subscriber- I get the page offering Ancestry subscriptions.

[Joy Dean]

I'll see if I can put the photo here.

[msr]

The link worked for me Joy.

Did you not contact the other one?  Although she probably got it from the first.

The first doesn't have many people on his tree though.  Can you find any connection?

As you say though, it does have your copyright mark on, so why won't Ancestry act on that.
You probably had the same response as I did. Makes you wonder whether to keep on handing them money

[Joy Dean]

Yes I did, but there was no reply.

It looks like my copyright, doesn't it? But I had not put my name on it and don't know why anyone else would put my name on it without my permission; I really wouldn't have wanted the world to see my name. Still, it's been there a while and there is nothing I can do about it.
More can see it now here, I have got used to it