Just love people that get . .

offended when I tell them to remove my photos when they haven’t credited either myself or findagrave for the headstone photos that they have taken and put on their family tree on ancestry.

I asked 2 different users to remove 3 photos that they had taken. Both people, sent me back almost the same comment:

Sorry to have offended you and violated your copyright. The photos are off my tree forever more…

and

I’m sorry if I’ve offended you–I’ve have taken it down-

Now, don’t get me wrong, I have photos that I have taken for findagrave and people that have requested them and asked me if they can have them on their family trees. I do allow it BUT have them put”© 2012 by Susan L Rutledge – Findagrave Memorial XXXXXXXXXX” — which to me is the correct thing to do. And I do check to make sure that they do. Most people don’t mind doing that extra step and some even put in their requests that they will show that you took the photo.

Now, one of the women had taken the photos, given credited to a woman that has taken photos for me in a different cemetery and listed them in the wrong cemetery. In fact the cemetery she listed them in is in Ontario and I am in BC.

The other woman has several requests for photos in Cemeteries that I am the only person that does the requests out here, now I will not do them and she will have to wait for someone else to take them.

You know it isn’t just getting credit for the photo but it is about making sure that the proper resource is there. As I know that when looking for headstones, they sometimes disappear through age or sadly, vandalism. If is is there, then you know the year the photo was taken, so you can roughly know when it was not missing/damaged.

I have a photo that I took in Mountain View of an Angel which when you visit her now, she is missing her head and hands. Vandals broke them off and took them, so she can’t even be repaired. I took the photo in 2008, she was destroyed in 2009.

The thing is just because something is on the internet does mean its up for grabs. Just like if you have your car in the street — doesn’t mean it is there for anyone to use.

Just ask — most times people will say yes!

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