On 6/9/2013 9:17 AM, Lesley Robertson wrote: > Grrrr, > I've just had an email from someone wanting me to send him all of the > photos included in the burial ground section of my website! It's a > complete burial ground, there's a lot of photos (and work) there. I > politely replied that I wasn't willing to send them all, and that > there's no way that all of the people in the burial ground are related. > The answer's just come back that he has nearly all the names, so needs > all the pictures, but if I don't want to send him all of them, could he > just have those in a longish list.... > > I'm a bit reluctant to tell him that I know that there's several > unrelated lines among the more common surnames because I've checked the > families in case he demands the research notes as well! > > I don't mind helping people with ancestors in my OPS, but this is > seriously over the top! > > Grrrrr > Lesley Robertson If you have traveled to the cemeteries and taken all of the photos, I do not see you have any obligation to provide them. If they really want photos of the graves, they have the same opportunity as you to travel there and take your own. Have they offered to pay you for the CD which will be required to send the photos? However I have a situation, that is somewhat different. I have two ledger books, and a dozen documents that were created by the members of the family in the first quarter of the 20 century. There is only one copy of these documents. While I have these documents, I feel they do not belong to ME. I have scanned both ledger books and all of the documents and will provide them to anyone who ask and provides me a valid address so I can send them the CD>