No, thank you, I do not wish to pay for a membership to get access to my own damned family pictures that you stole from ME from my findagrave account and are trying to market back to me. Shitheads.
I’m fairly confident that Ancestry don’t steal content from other sites. It will have been saved by a researcher and uploaded with their own tree. You can probably thank a distant relative or a name collector with a tenuous connection to your family.
Ancestry tend to screw over content owners in other ways. For instance, some of their processes break the connection between the media and the original uploader, causing all sorts of ill feeling between relatives who think they’ve had their content “stolen” and effectively making it impossible for them to remove content they previously shared.
That’s what my sister (2 of ) said when I posted about finding out our great grandfather on the NA side was a Black man from Virginia.
On the one hand it means my boys have even a less chance of being enrolled in the tribe. On the other hand I am not sure if he was adopted into the tribe when he married and had kids with our GGrandmother. That was a “thing” back in the days of pre-casinos.
But it is really hard to argue with US and Canada census information. Plus 1 picture from a newspaper and the fact that my oldest brother when a child and he had short hair it was kinky curly and, yes, he looked like the cutest lil black boy ever (I am prejudiced: my family are all the cutest when kids 
not so much as we age).
I have hair that is long and not so straight and it wants to dread really badly. Know now that I have Black ancestry has given me a way to take care of my hair that has always been not straight (no shampoo/just conditioner most of the time, now).
Me? I think it’s cool and wonder how he got from Virginia to Canada… was he born a freeman? Was he a former slave (he was born in 1858) who left the USA for a new unfettered life? Was the name he used his actual name and where did it come from? On one census he was referred to as a mulatto (another just says black)… so is there both white and black family from back then that I am remotely related to?
And it might explain a bit of family lore and why my NA mother was so prejudiced (she hated her past).
I know perfectly well which family photos are mine. I put the captions on them with photoshop my very own self.
Am I correct that family trees constructed by Ancestry.com [del]victims[/del] customers CANNOT be rendered in a readable format like Gedcom? I’ve only been able to view them in a hideous graphic format, huge, very slow to scroll, and with ctrl-C copy disabled.
Wait until they find out you’re the one who defaced their pictures.
Thread title reminds me of some stupid movie I saw forever ago about some guy who gets mistakenly sent back in time and ends up boning his grandmother or something, and winds up being his own grandpa.
Screw you, Ancestor! 
I wish I could sleep…
Do NA tribes generally accept DNA data when determining who gets to be an official member? I seem to recall that some tribes don’t, but maybe that’s different for the particular tribe you are thinking of.
According to Wikipedia, Find a Grave was sold to Ancestry.com in 2013, so it’s their own site.
It’s what I came in to say. As such, they have rights to everything posted there.
I know that Ancestry bought Findagrave. I know that they now have the rights and access to pictures people have posted there. I don’t even mind that so much. What irritates me is that they are trying to sell me my own stuff. It’s like borrowing my car and then selling trying to sell it back to me, for fucksake.
I would suspect that all the photos they scoop up become identifiable only by name and not by source. It would be a huge chore to attempt to sort them so that they’re only targeted for certain individuals instead of anyone with that surname in the database.
At least if Ancestry has a copy, it is preserved - as opposed to the stuff that gets trashed as gram and gramps house gets cleaned out…
Ancestry also owns the Social Security Death Index rights, so they’re profiting from information about the American public by controlling access to that same public. Even when you use the free SSDI site you have to provide your first name and email to get a result and naturally one can expect that information to be sold. Our taxes pay to collect and keep the information safe and searchable, then we pay to access it as well.
You don’t need a time machine to be your own grandpa.
As for Ancestry.com yeah I get pretty pissed with them at times but then I suddenly remember how difficult this stuff was before the internet.
Ok, I still don’t get this. Ancestry has photos that YOU uploaded… so you have the originals, right?
It’s not like David Thorne emailing someone an image, then asking them to email it back, is it?
That’s an episode of Futurama.
AIUI, the OP is pissed to have their own content marketed back at them by this 3rd party to whom they did not sell nor give the content directly.
A good point. This is why I put them up on Findagrave in the first place. I was depressed by going to thrift stores and finding box upon box of old photos of unidentified people. I wanted future descendants to be able to see what great great great grandma and grandpa looked like. I’m sure my mom’s old photos will end up being trashed one way or another some day so I put them up online to avoid that depressing outcome. Not to have access to them sold back to me.
You’re better off keeping a hard copy. Much of what exists only as digital content is in danger of disappearing in a few decades.