My tree is private, but I do think that it's unfair that people can still download certificates, stories and photographs from my tree and add to their own! Photos and stories and records from other trees often pop up when Im doing a search, and some of them are old photos that I've cleaned up ((or Rootchat Restorers have) then I've later added names and dates onto the photo itself, also, Official Records, Newspaper articles etc., all thing I have paid for myself and I get very hot under the collar when somebody just freely copies my photos, stories, certs etc, without even asking by PM, and not even bothering to say thank you! If someone's else's photos or records pop up when I'm doing a search, and it's one I don't have, I make a point of messaging the member, introducing myself, and asking if they mind if I copy some of their photos and certs! And I always say thank you!
But..., if it's people who have just added my stuff willy nilly without bothering to ask me, I get really wild. GRRR😡😡😡. I just have to laugh though when I see one person in particular who has attached some of my photo's stories etc to the wrong person - ie one photo and cert. in particular, was a photo of my Mum, which had been renamed as her younger sister Mary! This person has a huge number of people in her tree, around the 10,000 mark, and five or 6 of my own personally owned photos have also been renamed by her and added to someone totally unrelated to me! This woman is not only a name gatherer, she is a total menace! In the words of Donald Trump, she's a "Fake" Researcher!!
