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Aberdeenshire memorial inscriptions records removed from Ancestry

From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.

At the end of March I announced that Ancestry had been forced to remove a database of Isle of Man civil registration indexes which it had crawled from another user's wesbite and added to their platform without any given consent, a move which was labelled as "apparent data theft" by the data creator (see http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2024/03/ancestry-pulls-isle-of-man-civil.html). Libraries, governments, genealogical societies, universities, and genealogists have made a wealth of information available online. There can be many positive reasons for hosting such material - and indeed, in the past, Ancestry has created third party indexes to records available on other platforms, with their agreement, which you can often see with Web: written as a prefix to the collection title.

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