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From: "Richard A. Pence" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Caution in posting genealogy online, how do I get them out of search engins?
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:58:18 -0500
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Joyce, while I make it a practice not to include info on living persons in
the data at my web page, I have a question:

Did the data on your relative include a current address?

If not, unless the name was quite unusual there is practically no way
someone could link the data at your site to a specific person. Even then,
the perpetrator would have to have more information, such as a SS number.

Also, I guess I don't understand the scam. Your relative's bank account
wasn't involved, right? Is it possible for someone to open a bank account
under a false name, then write a $25,000 check on the account and have the
bank cash it? Shoot, my bank will bounce a check if you are overdrawn by a
buck.

Regards,
Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joyce C. Wicks" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 9:26 AM
Subject: [APG] Caution in posting genealogy online, how do I get them out of
search engins?


> Hi everyone,
>
> I was reminded recently of the importance of NOT including living
> people in our online genealogical information.
>
> A relaative of mine, whose name, marriage and etc were on my
> homepage, called me and requested the family name be removed
> from the web page.
>
> She told me that a couple had opened a checking account in her
> name possibly using the vital statistics found on my homepage plus
> a set of fake identifications. The man wrote a check on that
> account for $25,000. Evidently my relative wasn't the first person to
> be used in this way. As far as I know, the man who wrote the check
> has not been caught.
>
> I went back to my page, plus a couple of others that had posted my
> gedcom file and removed this relative and changed the rest of the
> living relatives so that their vital information was removed and
> replaced with living. At the time I originally placed the information
> on the internet, I didn't own a program that could do that.
>
> My remaining problem is this. HOW DO I GET THEIR NAMES OF
> THE SEARCH ENGINES????? Does anyone know?
>
> Thank you for your help and support,
> Joyce
>
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