First of all I am sorry for any family who suddenly discovers family recently deceased listed by unknown people on the internet, it would be a shock and more so if details incorrect. That said I have to say I would wonder why they put it up and not genealogically. Sometimes folk would use this as a way of expressing their condolences. Strange it might be but perhaps it was their way of spreading the work and immortalising the recently departed as it were. Protocol is not always followed and indeed what is protocol in matters of recently deceased especially when there is a public notice in a local newspaper. Remember that when we review newspaper small local publications would print city papers please copy or these days because they are owned by huge corporations the obituaries may be permitted to be printed elsewhere. As genealogists we want this type of thing to occur to be able to find our lost relatives but when that person was living and known to us and we are grieving we don't give a damn [pardon me] about such things. We want to grieve in our own way and not have someone else add to what we must deal with. I understand how such seemingly rude, inappropriate actions by others can impact on bereaved relatives but please consider they may NOT be just being a genealogist but someone trying to show they care in their own way. Once again I am sorry for those amongst us who have just lost a loved one I do not mean to cause further grief and sincerely apologize if I have done so. Suzanne

I will say that someone posted a photo request in my area of a 16 year old boy that had died in a car wreck about 2 weeks earlier. I just couldn't do it. I didn't claim the request. The boy was the son of the pastor of the church down the road from me. Michele