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Thank you for that information. My printer has a scanner which I use for photos so that idea should work easily for me.

Thanks for that Kitty. I think though that I might experiment by copying a photo on the computer and then writing something on it.

Huia.

I am wondering that too, as I have just put a photo on my private ancestry tree and I dont want this name collector nicking it

jax

Hi Kitty, Yes to HuiaInAutumn's question. How do you watermark your photos? I have started putting photos on my Ancestry tree and I was under the impression that, because it is a private tree, no one could even see the photos.

Kitty, how do you put a watermark or logo on your pictures, please?

Huia.

You can easily copy a photo from an Ancestry tree. I have also had people take a photo on my tree on Ancestry and transfer it to their own tree on Ancestry although I'm not sure how that is done.

I've had contact from a 'name collector' who is very distantly related to me by a marriage in the early 1800's but who has copied nearly all of my mother's and father's lines. He is not related to any of my mother's ancestors. However I do agree with KittyGalore. I have a contact who has a very large, immaculately researched tree complete with certificates, baptism, marriage and death information etc. She has over 250 photos from many contacts and is most generous with her information. I was very pleased to be able to add my branch to her family tree.

Sue

You can copy photos from GR trees that you have access to - I have done it on several occasions, with the permission of the other member, of course.

Not a lot of people seem to know that....!

I have read on here somewhere in the last week or so you can....but as I dont bother with a tree on here as such I dont know how.

Unless these are all pics she has stolen from ancestry and transferring them over...but I know she did not have a photo of my grandparents in her photo album thats for sure

edit this is where I read it

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1266710

jax

jax

mmmmmm! As far as I know you can't copy a photo from somebody else's tree. I myself have a few photos that belong to other people, but they are all of real relatives and have been sent voluntarily in emails!

Anyone know if you CAN lift a photo from another tree?

I have one who wanted to view my tree...I have not given access but she has got the info anyway from others plus ancestry trees. This person has more than 30.000 and adds upto 100 people a day....sorry I do not feel this is someone doing her family tree just a name collector with 100's of photos which I assume she has also taken from the trees.
I did ask her what her relationship was with my dads only sister...no reply.

The only people I would give access to are people who share the same gt grandparents as me

jax

It would be nice if we could all agree, roughly, what is a decent amount of "borrowing" from one another's trees. I feel I'm happy to exchange just about everything with near relatives, but very nervous of collectors with over, say 20000 people in their trees, who must mostly simply be pasting in names without any real understanding of the family history. Once your tree gets onto one of those trees, it kind of becomes public property and completely outside your own control.

Where does a collector stop? As we're all related, in theory they can finish up with the population of the whole country/world, and certainly sooner or later they should find that they have gone right round to the other side of their tree and met themselves coming back!

Robin, some people will give access for only a short time, or perhaps do not realise that they had given access. Perhaps they have taken heed of some of the stories on here of people who just copy the whole tree, including your ancestors who are not related at all. I have a man who is related to one line of my family but he has everybody from my tree, including my husbands ancestors who are definitely not related to him. I have now removed his access to my tree so he does not add any new names that I have added to my tree.

Huia in South Auckland, NZ.

My thanks to everyone who has given me access to their tree.
I confess it is not helpful when access is removed again for no apparent reason.
I never cut off access to my tree once given (though of course I would in case of misuse)
Like many, I need to return again and again to other folks' trees in order to check and recheck, and it would be nice if access were maintained.
Please think about this!
Robin in Rawene, New Zealand
ps: I presume it's not done automatically by GR?