I am so upset .....

[Murrell]

I can understand Helen feeling upset- my experience is that l do not have information tree names etc of my adopted family in any website can you imagine my surprise when l saw a photograph of my adopted father on Ancestry he would not have been happy seeing it -he dead many years ago. I contacted the lady and asked where she had got the photo from( l have the original in an album) did tell Her that
Her reply " oh l picked it up on this site's
I have put his name into search on Ancestry but still unsure where she got it from!!!!

[Essnell]

Hi everyone.  I received the above post by   Murrell late last night here in Oz on my phone.  i opened it. 

read it and then discovered at the end 4 links to places where one can get whole family trees,photos etc. i have no idea if they require subs or what but it begs a huge explanation from someone.
One was google. So they are all playing with us. 

Essnell.

[Rena]

One explanaition could be that an official photographer had retired and died.  Then his estate has been auctioned off by his family and somebody buys the stock.

The photographer owns the rights, which presumably passes to the new owner.

[George E. H. Haydock]

   I have my ancestral tree from, Orm De Eydock ,Adock, Haddock and others, all under De Haydock (1165)  today with my grand son ,From Lancashire England, to County Tyrone N.Ireland , And Belfast, Then now N.S.W. Australia, and Queensland, i never would have any photos, Showing Ancestral Family Its a no go on Rootschat for all to see.
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[coombs]

I like to keep my Ancestry tree public, especially as 99% of the people are long dead. I often have notes added under details, explaining my sources as well as attaching them, or I add a note explaining possible leads, and "More sleuthing needed" at the end.

[BushInn1746]

Hi lovely rootschatters,

Yesterday I logged into my Ancestry account as I do daily to check my new DNA matches and do a little family history research on my family tree which I have built up with my own verified research over the last 25 years.
 ...

 ... yesterday ... the whole of my family tree and research appeared on her own Ancestry page listed.

I definitely have not given her an invite to share my tree over to her although my tree is public on Ancestry.

My tree has only 800 names on it all totally verified with lots of hard graft and money dedicated to it, hers has nearly 60,000 people on.

For me this is really upsetting....any advice would really be appreciated. Thank you so much for taking time to read my message.

Warmest regards...Helen.

I am so sorry Helen, but once you go public online, it is difficult to stop your paid, 1,000s hours and years of research, from being used or copied by others.

The word Plagiarism springs to mind ...

https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic/guidance/skills/plagiarism#:~:text=The%20University%20defines%20plagiarism%20as,your%20work%20without%20full%20acknowledgement.

A Canadian contact, printed and bound their Commercial Pilot and Air Force Family member and some family research as a private work, in a limited print run book format, asserting their rights, book was not to be sold, etc., giving copies to their family, the National Libraries and a few others.

Not always possible, due to cost.

Mark

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

I cleared my hints again yesterday but they are back within 24 hours hosted in the other trees, if I leave it three or four days I'll soon be over 100 hints primarily based on the same half a dozen images.

One picture in particular appears multiple times in my hints. It was in my tree and copied by one person who has a tree and has been copied by 20+ tree owners.
In some ways it's frustrating as they take the images but not the details and if they looked at my tree would find all manner of details that the bare bones tree they favour doesn't have. Many don't seem to want anything beyond a name and a picture.

[Essnell]

Hi Everyone

Did the  OP say whether her tree was Public or Private.   Maybe it is public and she did this unknowingly.

Question: when first setting up a tree is is initially Public by default?   

Essnell

[nestagj]

I have one very basic public tree linked to my DNA and its surprising (I know it shouldn't be) how many trees this information appears on other peoples trees.  My remaining trees are private and non- searchable.....off I go to double check them all yet again

Nesta