We have been members of RootsChat for over sixteen years and our current avatar has been in use for the last ten years. This picture is taken from an original photograph in our possession, which we believe is the only one as there are no other descendants from these three children, other than our direct family line.
We have a basic family tree on Ancestry (with no uploaded photographs) for use with our DNA tests and regularly have numerous hints as to possible matches etc. These hints also show around twenty photographs as being matches to our tree and as well as scans of census and certificates, there are about six proper photographs.
Looking through these we see that our RootsChat avatar has been copied (with a very poor resolution) to a Hales family tree - but attached to these children’s Great Grandfathers record. This photograph has also been shared to 56 other Ancestry user trees to their same Great Grandfather.
Whilst we are aware that once on-line, it is easy to copy and reuse photographs - what is the point of attaching a photograph of three unnamed Hales children born in the 1870’s to someone born in 1729, with no explanatory note to go with it ?
Having looked into three of the 56 trees having this photograph attached, none of them had our branch shown with their trees stopping at our G G G G Grandfather who just has their birth and death shown.
Sorry for the rant, but if any of these 56 Ancestry users were to contact us, we would be happy to show them where these three children fit in to the Hales family line.
Al & Al
