[bugsMarathon88]

Please upload these photos to Commons, especially if you own the rights to them; photos taken in the US before 1930 can be shared even if they are not yours, too. These stories and associated artifacts are interesting and deserve to be shared, if you're comfortable with it.

[JKCalhoun]

I've posted already to ancestry.com, findagrave.com, etc. (But I am inclined to do up a blog post about it so I can talk about it and embed the photos.)

[vintermann]

Those two are both owned by Ancestry, and as you know, Ancestry requires expensive subscriptions to be of much use. I understand you have already invested a lot in it, and that US genealogy is hard to do with only public sources, but people just getting into genealogy should really avoid getting locked into Ancestry and MyHeritage.

They sell access to what others have contributed freely, sometimes they even sell you your own information back to you. For instance, if you want to use the birth and death dates, sources etc. that you've laboriously entered into a MyHeritage tree in Geni, you need a Geni Pro account. (Geni is owned by MyHeritage).

I think that of the three big American options, FamilySearch is best. Yes, it's the Mormons, and they do have an ulterior motive in their "baptism of the dead" thing, but they don't charge, they have an excellent transcribed source repository, free text search of machine-learning OCRd source documents, and actually smart matching. I'm glad their tithes pay for a state of the art genealogy research platform, I can think of a lot worse things it could have gone to!

They're also, interestingly enough, the least Anglo-biased: they don't give a child their father's last name by default, for instance.

The main downside is that they don't have any DNA features.

[bgwalter]

More training material? Why not upload them under the most restrictive copyright possible?

[JKCalhoun]

I haven't yet switched over to the view that training material is bad. I'm neutral at this point.

Instead I would rather it be accessible to other relatives that may not be aware of the photos (or are yet to be born).

[bugsMarathon88]

Because Commons won't allow you to. Hilarious anyone thinks a license wards away scrapers, too.