Thanks for the great suggestion. I also use the media's Description to enter the name of the individual who uploaded the photo to Find A Grave. I also include the Web URL for the photo in Find A Grave which has the ID and the date of the upload. As you say, it is all about providing links for other researchers to find their loved ones. Thanks again. BJ On 1/26/2014 1:04 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Since I have a couple of thousand memorials for my family up on Find Grave and do use photos from it in my tree I use the description box to state that the "pic is courtesy of" and either use the name of the FAG volunteer or the name of the cousin who uploaded it for me. That way the owner of the original photo is established. I also ask the owners of photos to upload them to FAG even if they send me copies so the ownership is established publically. Sometimes some cousins who have difficulty using computers will not be able to figure out how to upload a pic, then I will do it for them and stating on FAG that "the photo is courtesy of" and list their name; so again ownership of the original is established publically. And again, I do the same in my tree for the same pic. The object is to not loose the images for the extended family in spite of the fact that the owners of the originals are dying off and not all the relatives are saving them. Plus I have hundred's of p! ho! > tos that were sent to me by relatives of collateral families who don't want them because they are photos of in-laws of their ancestors, not of their ancestors. I still id them as courtesy of whomever sent them to me, since no one in my family took them even though I now own the originals. Doing so has actually garnered me more contacts of living descendants of both families, which as international data coordinator of our family history research group has enabled me to further extend our tree and to put them in contact with others researching their part of the family tree.

I don't rely on the URL to remain stable - the memorial # should remain the same, though they may have to add leading zeros again. Joanne On 1/26/2014 6:21 PM, BJ wrote: > Thanks for the great suggestion. I also use the media's Description to > enter the name of the individual who uploaded the photo to Find A > Grave. I also include the Web URL for the photo in Find A Grave which > has the ID and the date of the upload. > > As you say, it is all about providing links for other researchers to > find their loved ones. > > Thanks again. > > BJ > > On 1/26/2014 1:04 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Since I have a couple of thousand memorials for my family up on Find Grave and do use photos from it in my tree I use the description box to state that the "pic is courtesy of" and either use the name of the FAG volunteer or the name of the cousin who uploaded it for me. That way the owner of the original photo is established. I also ask the owners of photos to upload them to FAG even if they send me copies so the ownership is established publically. Sometimes some cousins who have difficulty using computers will not be able to figure out how to upload a pic, then I will do it for them and stating on FAG that "the photo is courtesy of" and list their name; so again ownership of the original is established publically. And again, I do the same in my tree for the same pic. The object is to not loose the images for the extended family in spite of the fact that the owners of the originals are dying off and not all the relatives are saving them. Plus I have hundred's of ! p! > ho! >> tos that were sent to me by relatives of collateral families who don't want them because they are photos of in-laws of their ancestors, not of their ancestors. I still id them as courtesy of whomever sent them to me, since no one in my family took them even though I now own the originals. Doing so has actually garnered me more contacts of living descendants of both families, which as international data coordinator of our family history research group has enabled me to further extend our tree and to put them in contact with others researching their part of the family tree. > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >