--- title: Scottish GENES: Aberdeenshire memorial inscriptions... description: Ancestry has removed a database of memorial inscriptions records from Aberdeenshire that were appropriated without consent from the Aberdeen and North-East... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/scottish-genes-aberdeenshire-memorial-inscriptions-records-removed-from-ancestry-8u1ghkvfs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Scottish GENES: Aberdeenshire memorial inscriptions records removed from Ancestry | daily.dev og:description: Ancestry has removed a database of memorial inscriptions records from Aberdeenshire that were appropriated without consent from the Aberdeen and North-East... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/scottish-genes-aberdeenshire-memorial-inscriptions-records-removed-from-ancestry-8u1ghkvfs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8U1GhkVFS.png og:image:alt: Scottish GENES: Aberdeenshire memorial inscriptions records removed from Ancestry og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Scottish GENES: Aberdeenshire memorial inscriptions records removed from Ancestry **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Ancestry has removed a database of memorial inscriptions records from Aberdeenshire that were appropriated without consent from the Aberdeen and North-East Scotland Family History Society. Ancestry's practice of adding web records to its site without seeking permission raises concerns about trust and potentially violates web standards for restricting crawling. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#data-privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/data-privacy) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/scottish-genes-aberdeenshire-memorial-inscriptions-records-removed-from-ancestry-8u1ghkvfs) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Scottish GENES: Aberdeenshire memorial inscriptions records removed from Ancestry","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/scottish-genes-aberdeenshire-memorial-inscriptions-records-removed-from-ancestry-8u1ghkvfs","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/scottish-genes-aberdeenshire-memorial-inscriptions-records-removed-from-ancestry-8u1ghkvfs"},"datePublished":"2024-05-05T16:12:41.159Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z","description":"Ancestry has removed a database of memorial inscriptions records from Aberdeenshire that were appropriated without consent from the Aberdeen and North-East...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/49b7d6b042b239a7e44839d4030b02b0?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/49b7d6b042b239a7e44839d4030b02b0?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/scottish-genes-aberdeenshire-memorial-inscriptions-records-removed-from-ancestry-8u1ghkvfs","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"data-privacy","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Scottish GENES: Aberdeenshire memorial inscriptions records removed from Ancestry"}]} ```