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From: "PJW" <>
Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] Why Rank or Post Sources?
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 12:53:56 -0500
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I have information on a lot of living people in my genealogy file. Whenever
I share information with people, I make sure to "privatize" the file so that
no information on living people is included. Given that there is so much
identity theft happening these days, I have made this promise to my family
who have willingly given me their personal information.

I, too, have thought about putting up a website or posting the family file
to ancestry.com but have been reluctant to do so for many of the reasons
stated on this list. One thing I do is post queries, which include a small
list of a specific family, on the various surname boards at
rootsweb/ancestry.com. I also post queries at some of the county genweb
sites. If someone is searching for those family members, they can find me
through the message boards. I've always been glad to share with someone who
asks. Just as others have shared with me.

Patricia
Champaign, Illinois


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Burfield" <>
To: <>
Sent: 07 May, 2005 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] Why Rank or Post Sources?


> This topic has been of great interest to me. I am vacillating with the
pros
> and cons of publishing a web site. I don't know what I am going to do.
But
> let me tell you of an experience I had a couple of years ago.
>
>
>
> I had connected with an unknown distant cousin via the web and we agreed
to
> exchange information. I was startled when she sent me a file that
included
> information about my immediate family! I realized that she had gotten the
> information from another distant relative which I had sent my file to. I
> have been leery to share info ever since. Once you give it away it is out
> of your control, be it on a web site or a private E Mail. Copy write laws
> are impossible to enforce on the internet in my opinion. What can we do
> about this problem?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "V Billings" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 10:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] Why Rank or Post Sources?
>
>
> >I agree with both of you and have not created a website. From reading
what
> >others have said...and hearing the stories of complete family
information
> >being repeated in someone else's website with no mention of where their
> >material came from. Another even more important reason is if I've not
> >proven the data myself, then I don't want to be spreading information
that
> >is not correct. I also feel the ones who take it all don't give a hoot
> >about the sources.
> >
> > This is my two cents for what it's worth.
> >
> > Vicki
> > Kathy Lenerz <> wrote:
> > Kirsten Bowman wrote:
> >> 2. I post my gedcom but am careful to first delete all notes and
sources.
> >> Each online page says that I do have sources and am glad to share with
> >> anyone who contacts me. This is an attempt, first, to encourage
possible
> >> "cousins" to write and possibly exchange information and, second, to
> >> discourage mass "borrowing" of my research. Does the absence of posted
> >> resources damage the credibility of my gedcom? Does it make me a bad
> >> person?
> >>
> >> I'll be happy to change my ways if someone can give me good reasons for
> >> reforming.
> >
> > I'm in complete agreement with this strategy. Although I don't have a
> > website, I've given considerable thought to what I would put on one if I
> > did. My thinking is that I've spent hundreds (thousands?) of hours
putting
> > together my family history, as carefully and accurately as possible. Why
> > should I give that away to everyone who just happens by my website,
> > whether
> > they're related or not? I'm willing to (and do) share my work with other
> > serious researchers who also share with me and with interested known
> > relatives. I think providing enough information so that possible
relatives
> > can contact you for further joint exploration of any links, without
giving
> > away your entire body of work, is a good solution.
> >
> > KQL
> >
> >
> >
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