Just Gillian
28-02-14, 08:09
I was doing a bit of tidying of my bookmarks last night and came across the one for the website of a chap with whom I share 3x Gt Grandparents. I don't think he was actively researching his family history - the details on there seemed to have been provided by a cousin.
I first emailed him early in 2008, informing him of our connection (not knowing he was going to put my email on the site!) and the very next weekend, off his own bat, he drove about 30 miles and took photos for me of the streets and areas mentioned in the census for my branch.
He has a small tree on the site and several photos of grandparents and earlier family members. The site also contained three links to some Glasgow design places and art galleries. I clicked on the links last night to try to ascertain if he was still "around". One of the links was "page not found", one is still as it was, and the third, which should have been Fine Art Dealers of Glasgow, took me instead to Glasgow Pornstar Galleries with pictures, dressed and undressed, of a large chested young woman.
Do I contact him to let him know what has happened, or just leave it? I think it would feel a bit odd to pop up after 6 years just to let him know his site has a link to a porn site. But, equally, if it were my site, with photos of my family, I'd want to know.
I had the impression, in 2008, that he was quite elderly and there is no sign of any activity on the site.
I first emailed him early in 2008, informing him of our connection (not knowing he was going to put my email on the site!) and the very next weekend, off his own bat, he drove about 30 miles and took photos for me of the streets and areas mentioned in the census for my branch.
He has a small tree on the site and several photos of grandparents and earlier family members. The site also contained three links to some Glasgow design places and art galleries. I clicked on the links last night to try to ascertain if he was still "around". One of the links was "page not found", one is still as it was, and the third, which should have been Fine Art Dealers of Glasgow, took me instead to Glasgow Pornstar Galleries with pictures, dressed and undressed, of a large chested young woman.
Do I contact him to let him know what has happened, or just leave it? I think it would feel a bit odd to pop up after 6 years just to let him know his site has a link to a porn site. But, equally, if it were my site, with photos of my family, I'd want to know.
I had the impression, in 2008, that he was quite elderly and there is no sign of any activity on the site.