---
title: "Scottish GENES: Aberdeenshire memorial inscriptions records removed from Ancestry"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/scottish-genes-aberdeenshire-memorial-inscriptions-records-removed-from-ancestry-8u1ghkvfs
source_url: http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2024/05/aberdeenshire-memorial-inscriptions.html
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-05-05T16:12:41.159Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z
tags: ["data-privacy"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# 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.

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