[dmorgan81]

As the article says, Ancestry wasn’t selling this data and was linking back to where it had come from. Ancestry also says they will honor robots.txt with instructions not to scrape data.

[georgeecollins]

You are right. I was just reacting to the idea that anything you find on webpage is yours to use without restriction. Think about pictures of my kids on social media!

Thank you for clarifying.

[louthy]

The OP wrote “make and use copies of data” — seems a reasonable response