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From: carolyn <>
Subject: Re: GenWeb DC Transcription Guidelines?
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 07:34:13 -0800
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Thanks to all who responded on this...........

I had hoped that there would be guidelines in place at the USGenWeb
Project regarding posting the names and addresses of the living to our
websites. In the case of full DC transcriptions this would be the name and
address of the informant- also I note that many obituaries do not list the
cause of death--and that is the decision the family / informant
makes..............Full DC transcriptions include this information.

I would suggest that the committee on USGenWeb Guidelines review this issue.

I guess it is currently up to us as the "publishers" of our websites to make
these important decisions regarding what materials and information we
choose to post directly on our sites. Linking to the CA-DEATH-INDEX archives
is an option that allows the researcher to find the information that has
already been posted to the net.

Just my opinion.

Carolyn
http://www.cagenweb.com/mariposa/





carolyn wrote:

> Hello Fellow Coordinators,
>
> How do you feel about placing full death certificate transcriptions on
> your GenWeb site?
>
> If you do place them on your website, must the death have occurred a
> certain number of years ago. 50?, 10?
>
> Do you know if there are any quidelines from the GenWeb Project?
>
> Those in favor of posting these death certificates feel that this is
> public information , the information is already posted to list archives
> elsewhere- so why not put them on the GenWeb!
>
> You can review these Death Certificate Transcriptions by browsing the
> CA-DEATH-INDEX
> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ca-death-index
>
> My issue is not with the CA-DEATH-INDEX list- my question only pertains
> to reposting these DC's to the County GenWeb Project County
> pages..........and what guidleines/feelings my fellow coordinators have
> regarding posting these Death Transcriptions to their sites...
>
> Thanks, Carolyn
> http://www.cagenweb.com/mariposa/

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