My complete tree pirated!

[ellarose]

I am happy for people to use my research to help them with theirs. It's the best and friendly way to share. I do get cross when someone who is the cousin of my brother's second wife takes my entire tree for his own including photographs. Seems that this is allowed on Ancestry.co.uk and I suppose it's difficult to alter it as it would upset the whole applecart. I have had to go private now, which I didn't want to do but every time I put something new up it is immediately taken by this tenuous cousin who obviously has absolutely nothing to do with me. Has anyone else experienced this or am I just being paranoid???

[jess5athome]

Hi, it happens all of the time I'm afraid, it's one of the pitfalls of using Ancestry if you have a public tree, the only alternative is to make your tree "Private", sad I know, but it's a harsh fact of life.
If it was me with the problem I would "Have a pop" at the cousin  I'm pretty good at pointed remarks, something along the lines of "Hey, are you going to share some of your research with me, or are you going to use my time and money all of the time?"
Just to see what reaction I would get.
Frank.

[silaswall]

I have not put my tree in a public domain for fear of this. Sharing & helping out is one thing. You may find someone who will have that elusive piece of info that will help you. But, as I have gone through many old documents which takes time and money (particularly if the documents are v old) I do not want someone helping themselves to it all. I know someone who would claim it was all their work. Pity because there are a lot of nice helpful people out there.

[Dom1]

ellarose,
you can write to ancestry and ask for any pictures that you have uploaded yourself to be removed from another public tree. Pictures of my great-grandparents, which my cousin had posted before she went private, were showing on 2 public trees. I wrote to both tree owners explaining the situation and they ignored my request, so I took the matter up with Ancestry who removed them with little fuss.   

[Plummiegirl]

You may also be interested to know that ALL trees (private and public) are available to be viewed on Ancestry's sister site Mundia.

Now once your tree in private, you go into your tree and then go to the settings and read through very carefully and there is a box to be ticked and this stops your tree appearing on the Mundia site as well.

I found out the hard way about the Mundia site!!!!!  After making a conscious decision that I wanted my tree to remain private and only sharing my information with selected people.  I have even started mini trees for interesting branches, that any contacts made via that branch can only access what I want them to....

 

[Hampshire Lass]

You may also be interested to know that ALL trees (private and public) are available to be viewed on Ancestry's sister site Mundia.

Now once your tree in private, you go into your tree and then go to the settings and read through very carefully and there is a box to be ticked and this stops your tree appearing on the Mundia site as well.

I found out the hard way about the Mundia site!!!!!  After making a conscious decision that I wanted my tree to remain private and only sharing my information with selected people.  I have even started mini trees for interesting branches, that any contacts made via that branch can only access what I want them to....

 

O M G Plummiegirl.........please explain where you can tick,so a private tree is not on mundia.

I also have experience of my whole tree and photos being stolen by an unrelated person but I was confident I now had them set as private and not showing up in searches......perhaps I haven't though

[meekhcs]

Wow I had no idea about Mundia either. I also have started  smaller trees on ancestry separate from the one I shared. All my trees are private,but once you share, whilst the person cannot upload data directly to their tree they can save your work to their computer and then upload to their tree. Sadly, whatever precautions you take, once you post anything on a computer  it is no longer truly "private"
Sally

[groom]

Now once your tree in private, you go into your tree and then go to the settings and read through very carefully and there is a box to be ticked and this stops your tree appearing on the Mundia site as well.

I cant see this, where is it please? Is it the box that says "Also prevent your tree from being found in the search index." 

[Acinonyx]

You may also be interested to know that ALL trees (private and public) are available to be viewed on Ancestry's sister site Mundia.

FYI, that is not true. Only public trees are on Mundia. If you make your tree private it won't disappear instantaneously, so you have to wait a few weeks for both sites to update for your tree to disappear on Mundia.