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Maggie Maybe<p>Because of all this <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/FindAGrave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FindAGrave</span></a> drama I slept 4 or 5 hours last night. I managed to get control of my father‘s page at least.</p><p>It also looks like at some point in the night he removed references to my mother‘s medical conditions and financial situation so at least there’s that. (this man literally wrote about her disabling medical conditions and how she lived in government housing. Why is that appropriate on a website for locating graves? </p><p>This morning I looked at his dad’s page. OMG I should really calm down because he slandered his own father far more than he did my mother or my grandmother. This whole time I thought it was a woman hating thing, and it is, he trashes my grandma on his father’s page but she probably deserved it that’s fine.</p><p>But this man, on his deceased father’s find a grave pages, spends paragraphs talking about my uncle‘s homosexuality, how my grandmother was cold and cruel to him, something about eugenics, he writes about semen and Romanian royalty or something. There’s lots of talk about semen though. 😂</p><p>And for some reason on his father’s page he talks about his own homosexuality. And he put my other uncles SSN on his page. </p><p>So I feel confident that if the legal department from that website actually looks at what I’m complaining about they’ll take it all down. Or maybe he will come out of this weird manic episode and he will see that it’s awful to put all this out there. </p><p>I’m actually looking forward to the legal department reading his father’s page. He was obviously having a mental health crisis when he wrote it, I’m pretty sure his whole life is a mental health crisis because whenever this man and I crossed paths I have to hear about eugenics and semen experiments and gang stalking. </p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/ancestryDotCom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancestryDotCom</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/doxxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doxxing</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Maggie Maybe<p>oh BOY. So this morning my cousin replied to my edit request asking him to take my mom’s addresses down. This was his reply:</p><p>“Anne's residential history is important for me to document. I did take your other suggestions. By the way, if this is Maggie, I say Hello! I'd love to know how to reach you, where you are living and how to reach your brother. Thanks, Robert”</p><p>I LOST IT. Bruh NO. I discovered that this website is actually part of <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/ancestry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancestry</span></a>, and according to their terms of use publishing people‘s addresses is a violation.</p><p>It’s impossible to contact this company but I did find six different email addresses for them so I emailed all of them and I copied the Attorney General in New Hampshire and the Attorney General in Utah where the website is based. I don’t know the rules about websites but I’m pretty sure they’re supposed to be some kind of mod or ability to stop just anything from appearing online, there’s no report button anywhere except to report a duplicate grave (ooh maybe I should make one then report his as a duplicate?) but WHY WOULD I GIVE HIM MY INFO AFTER THIS.</p><p>Oh, and EVEN WORSE. The entry he made for my grandma has all of her addresses on it, but the entry he made from my brother and my father and his father do not. He’s literally only victimizing women. There is no legitimate reason it’s important for him to publish all my mother’s addresses. If for some bizarre reason he needs this information for himself he can keep it in a drawer at home.</p><p>Anyway I don’t know how to reply to him so I suggested another edit thru the site and I pasted the body of the email I sent to the AGs in it. AND the paragraph from terms and conditions that says he can’t do this.</p><p>PLEASE if you have your burial plot, maybe go make a blank entry on this site so no one else can make one and write whatever they want to about you because apparently that’s a thing and there’s no way to get it taken down swiftly. I never imagined anyone with seize control of entering my family on find a grave website and then refuse to respect my wishes regarding private information. He even made an entry from my father‘s parents, for a grandmother who was dead before my father even met my mom. The absolute <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/audacity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>audacity</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/privacyIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacyIsDead</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/doxxingForProfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doxxingForProfit</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/ancestryDotCom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancestryDotCom</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/FindAGrave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FindAGrave</span></a></p>
sgt1372<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNA</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GeneticTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneticTesting</span></a></p><p>Just deleted my accounts &amp; presumably my DNA data files at <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GEDMatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GEDMatch</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MyHeritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MyHeritage</span></a> following the deletion of my account &amp; the data held by <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/23andme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>23andme</span></a>.</p><p>This just leaves my account &amp; the data held by <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AncestryDotCom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncestryDotCom</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WeGene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeGene</span></a>. </p><p>Should probably delete the WeGene account too since I've never used it since I first had my DNA tested by 23&amp;Me over 10 years go.</p><p>So, I'll look into deleting that account too.</p>
AnneTheWriter<p>FREE access to <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NewspapersDotCom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewspapersDotCom</span></a> today and tomorrow ONLY (Feb.16-17, 2025), via the link below. Original Facebook post from the company's page (posted yesterday) read:</p><p>"FREE ACCESS* to the largest online newspaper archive now through Monday! Unlock 27,000+ papers from 1690 to 2025 with a simple search. The past is waiting to be discovered.</p><p>FREE ACCESS LINK: <a href="https://nwspprs.com/free2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">nwspprs.com/free2025</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>(*Free Access only available through the link in this post. Registration required. Terms apply. Ends 17 Feb 2025.)"</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/geneadons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>geneadons</span></a></span> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Geneadons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geneadons</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Genealogists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogists</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Newspapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newspapers</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NewspaperArchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewspaperArchives</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Ancestry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ancestry</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AncestryDotCom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncestryDotCom</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FamilySearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FamilySearch</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MyHeritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MyHeritage</span></a></p>
AnneTheWriter<p>🤔 But will the new regulation matter if the Chinese govt controls the company that owns the data? (Chinese puppet firm <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Blackstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackstone</span></a> owns <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AncestryDNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncestryDNA</span></a>.)</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DataMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataMining</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DataPrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataPrivacy</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GeneticGenealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneticGenealogy</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Geneadons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geneadons</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/geneadons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>geneadons</span></a></span> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AncestryDotCom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncestryDotCom</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@drewharwell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>drewharwell</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@drewharwell/112008671889762880" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@drewharwell/1</span><span class="invisible">12008671889762880</span></a></p>
WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮<p>Ooh look! I just gave a faceless corporation my DNA and I paid THEM!!<br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AncestryDotCom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncestryDotCom</span></a><br>You're clearly about 40% Neanderthal.</p>