I agree it is annoying when people take information and do not give in return, which is why I mostly just have the bare bones of my tree on ancestry.   That way hopefully someone will contact me asking where and how I found the information and let me know how it connects to them.   That way I have new "cousins" which is great.   However, what I would ask is how do you actuallyKNOW that these people have copied from you, is it not possible for them to have come to the same conclusions by completely separate research, after all, if you can find the information, so can they.      Susan Young wrote: > I maintain my own family data on my own websites which are free to > anyone to use and thereby have kept for myself the ability to hit > Ancestry for copyright infringement (which I have done successfully > for myself and several friends) when my material turns up on their > website. > Susan D. Young > Chief Executive, Ancestry Solutions ------------------------------- 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

Hello, To A. Clarke, particularly, who asks: "However, what I would ask is how do you actuallyKNOW that these people have copied from you..." The mistake those who had copied from my website and from those of several friends was that the Ancestry poster had carried over all of my notes verbatim and included the "listing data" as a source. No mistake, my name and in my friends' cases, their names, were all over every page of the posted trees. Sincerely, Susan D. Young Chief Executive, Ancestry Solutions www.ancestrysolutions.com County Administrator, Kent OPC Project www.kent-opc.org