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My Grandpa's picture is everywhere :(

My Grandpa's picture is everywhere :(

Posted: 11 Jan 2014 10:06PM GMT
Classification: Query
I thought my pictures were secure when I linked from my family tree maker.... I was wrong, now about 9 or 10 people have copied a profile picture of my darling grandpa onto their trees and in at least three cases the person they've attached it to ISN'T EVEN HIM!!!! I'm really upset about it, also really concerned.... I put pictures of my CHILDREN on that tree, are living individuals secure or is there a serious risk to their identity as well? :(

Re: My Grandpa's picture is everywhere :(

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 1:50AM GMT
Classification: Query
I don't know if there is anything that can be done but I would like to share my experience as well. I shared some private family photos with a distant relative and without asking they were uploaded as well into a public family tree. Same thing, The pictures are being stolen from that tree and used into other peoples. I am very upset! Those pictures were not hers to put public! Let me know if you get anywhere with this.

Re: My Grandpa's picture is everywhere :(

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 1:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Elfynn,
I understand your annoyance as I once felt the way you do. However, I changed my mind; the only people who want my pictures, or come across them, are relatives. I don't begrudge them, in fact I now encourage people to use my photos as the more that do so the more know about my/their family. It's a poor day when I sign on the home page shows fewer than 5 copies have been taken.
I have pictures of my children on my tree, and my wife as a child, as I don't think everyone is a paedophile and I doubt if they trawl Ancestry trees to fulfill their perversion. But maybe I'm naive being from a different generation.
Of course it's a two way street and I copy photos others have put on their trees. If they're not 'private' trees then they're available. Most come from folk I communicate with and share information anyway. I copy photos and improve them; putting the colour back in to faded prints and restoring damaged prints. I also colorize black & white pictures so they look like the hand-tinted ones that were available at the time but were usually too expensive. I try to remember to give credit in the pictures details to who it came from and acknowledge I did the alterations. I offer the owner a full size copy for use in their tree. No one as asked me to remove a photo I've used but if they did I'd get rid of it. I have been asked to remove people I've found from public records who exist in someone's private trees and if they're still alive I do so.

Re: My Grandpa's picture is everywhere :(

Posted: 31 Jan 2015 1:26AM GMT
Classification: Query
I am a huge proponent of making photos available so that people can enrich their trees and see photos of their ancestors that they might not otherwise get to see. I know that there are many family members that I don't personally own photos of, so it is a joy to find them on other's trees. I would certainly honor a request to remove images, and make a point to give credit if I am uploading a photo someone else has provided (like those found on Find-a-Grave).

HOWEVER I do have a problem with people attaching a photo to the wrong person, which has happened with a some pictures of one of my relatives. (The names are the same, but they are not the same person.) Unfortunately, the person who has done so has ignored my requests for removal. It is a risk you run with having a public tree.

Your children's photos will not show up in any searches and are secure, as long as they are marked as "living." Any images, stories, etc that are attached to at least one living person cannot be seen by anyone else unless you explicitly give them permission to do so. Giving them permission is not something you can accidently do, you have to go into your settings and send them an invitation via email.

Hope this helps.

Re: My Grandpa's picture is everywhere :(

Posted: 18 Mar 2015 11:30AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 18 Mar 2015 2:16PM GMT
There are a number of threads on the message boards on this general topic. Here is one that may be of interest: http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.ancestry.ancsite/11788.2.1...

If a photo is attached to the wrong person, and the person who attached it will not remove it, you can add a comment on their copy (which they can't remove unless they delete the photo itself). This will be seen by everyone who has copied it (correctly or otherwise)

Just add something that says something like, "This is my grandfather, John Edward Smith. I uploaded this to my tree from a family photo album. This man was born on X date and died on Y date. He was married to Eliza Jones. He lived all his life in Ralls County, MO. This is not the same man as John Aaron Smith, born on A date and died on B date, who was married to Susannah White and lived in Berkshire County, PA." In future, you might want to put a watermark, e.g., with the person's dates and possibly location, on the photo before uploading.

Re: My Grandpa's picture is everywhere :(

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 5:02PM GMT
Classification: Query
In addition to adding a comment to the person's tree (which is a great idea), I've started using a photo editing program to type the names of the people onto the photo in the margins. Unless the photo is subsequently cropped to remove the text, it's a good way to make sure that the people in the photo are correctly identified.

Re: My Grandpa's picture is everywhere :(

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 7:10PM GMT
Classification: Query
Adding an identifier to the photo itself is a good idea. Be aware, a comment on the tree can be removed, and also will not be flagged to others who have copied the photo to the wrong person. To reach everyone who has copied a media item (and prevent removal of the comment), you need to comment specifically on the media item.

Re: My Grandpa's picture is everywhere :(

Posted: 2 Jun 2015 2:42AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you for what you said I never got to meet most of my people as my mother and father moved to Alaska and I seen my grandmother & grandfather once I have few pictures and fewer information thank you so much for what you said maybe others will think of others not so much of themselves
Melody Moreland 👍
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