Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash I haven’t blogged in a while. For two years, I put this blog on private as I’d no longer had the willpower to push out blog posts the way that I did six years ago. I write a little more about this in my blog post Why Do You Do… ? Recently, I have revamped my blog. I have unpublished posts that didn’t reflect who I was then or who I am now, or those that felt too personal to share ‘out there’. I also removed posts I wrote just for the sake of posting content and main taining an audience, even when inauthentic to me. It means more to me that others feel the value and quality of what I share rather than the quantity. I am not sure how often I will post, all I know is when the inspiration and curiosity strike, that’s when it will occur. My intention for this blog is to lead with more spontaneity than usual, structured content, along with transparency, authenticity, and vulnerability to whatever degree feels right. My inte...
If you haven’t heard already, Ancestry has made some changes to its Terms and Conditions. Essentially, the changes say that Ancestry has a license to use the media that we upload to our family trees for marketing, advertisements, and other uses . Please read Judy Russell's blog posts entitled Ancestry Retreats and One big Change at Ancestry . Here is my view on the situation: 1. I have multiple trees on Ancestry. Some are for cousins' matches, one with photos, and another without photos. The photos that I have uploaded to Ancestry are on my private tree. 2 . I am still on the fence about whether or not I should delete my photos. I stopped uploading media because I found out that once you "delete" it from your tree, those who attached it to their tree, it is still there. 3. I think the main issue for me is that they can use photos of living people. Though I don't think Ancestry would use the photo if they knew the person(s) in the photo we...