You asked: ....Is there any recourse to outfits like Ancestry.com?
....
No sarcasm intended, but when you send material to unknown people, you
can expect to have lost all control and dominion over it. As a
practical matter you can do nothing about it. You can "sue", but you
will NOT win.
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