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Subject: Re: [APG] An ethical question - SUGGESTION ....
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:00:40 EDT
Judy, you asked:
> For those of you APGers who are members of the DAR or SAR, how do you
> handle requests for research from members and potential members?
> I can only address the DAR portion of your question.
It is not appropriate for a DAR member to charge prospective members for
research or for doing their papers. Shirley Wagers, Registrar General,
recently addressed this in a letter. If you haven't seen it, and if you are
referring to DAR, please contact me privately, I will put you in touch with her.
DAR has a number of ways of helping the prospective member - members of
the chapter volunteering assistance, the lineage workshops and the Lineage
Committee, to name a few.
If a member requests you to do research for them for a supplemental,
that would be different, and would be a business arrangement between you as the
researcher and the member as a client, or whatever you want to arrange. Hope
this helps. And, I hope I understood your question correctly.
Joan Hunter
Joan A. Hunter
State Regent
Oregon State Society, NSDAR
Joan A. Hunter, M.L.S., Certified Genealogist
MASSACHUSETTS GENEALOGY, specializing in Franklin, Hampden & Hampshire
Counties
Author of Descendants to the Tenth Generation of Jedediah Barton (1707-after
1798) of Oxford and Ward, Worcester County, Massachusetts, pub. Higginson Book
Co.
"Vernon, Vt., Marriages," NEHG Register, Apr. 2004 and Vermont Genealogy,
Apr., July, Oct., 2004.
Member Association of Professional Genealogists http://www.apgen.org
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