Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
Not only that, but it's also a bit "unsportsmanlike" among the genealogical community to deliberately withold information from others. I've known people who have denied access to public records in their possession simply for spite, and many a researcher couldn't use those sources in their research.

You may have a beef with ancestry, fair enough, but do you have a beef with all of its users enough to hurt someone in their efforts to trace their ancestry?

T.
i had a issue on genes reunited where i let a women share my data ,id been new to the site and didn't notice at the time i could set it in a way that living persons where censored to the other folk ,
this one lady copied my entire tree including my nephews and nieces , it took me 3 weeks for this women to remove the data from her tree she copied over 400 names at that time and the only connection she had was her great great great great grandfathers brother married my great time 4 grandmothers sister not a blood connection at all and no need to copy what she had
when i did get it took off she was rather abusive and started all this religious spiel that we are all family and so on
but i wasnt having any of it

to this date i dont know if she still has the data she could have easily downloaded a gedcom and deleted the information from the site without my knowledge for all i know she could be selling the names of my nephews and nieces to foreigners in fake passports yeah perhaps a long shot but something thats more common than folk think

so i can agree completely with CDNSushi if you want your data removed for any reason you shouldn't need to threaten legal action regardless of whose missing out