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From: Ruth Mather <>
Subject: Re: NYJEFFER-D Digest V01 #42
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 16:40:57 -0500
References: <200103071800.f27I0t219012@lists7.rootsweb.com>


I have been doing genealogy for some time & I feel that genealogies are
meaningless without dates. I find it hard to believe that a child
molester would go to a genealogy database to choose his victim, but I
suppose it could happen. Birth dates of newborns are published in the
newspapers daily, everywhere. Although Ancestry.com has no business
SELLING information on living people & should be taken to task (if not
to court) for it, if you choose to keep your information so private, no
one in 100 years will have a clue what you have done. It will pass on
to some descendant who cares NOT about family history. Another Ruth


> Gord - You said it well! I have personally had the experience of finding
> myself on Ancestry.com, thanks to a distant cousin of my husband's. She was
> very insistent about getting dates and places for us, the living, and I
> resisted, for which I am now glad. I wish I had ceased my information with
> my husband's grandparents, who are beyond harms way. Ruth
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> Subject: Gordon Hines' letter
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:38:05 -0500
> From: "Shirley Farone" <>
> To:
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> I, too, think Mr. Hines has some good points.
>
> Two points I wish to bring up -- I can't seem to get beyond his verbiage,
> but I have had little education (not unusual for me to miss the point)
>
> Would he give us some examples of what he finds offensive?-- change the
> names and give us exact examples. What is he seeing or has seen on the two
> Lists to which he addressed his letter is he referring.
>
> Secondly, what about newspaper obits which are and have been a way of life
> for years and years -- many times they are erroneous -- the type of material
> we all work to prove or disprove. Is Mr. Hines advocating that newspapers
> no longer publish obits -- and do you suppose Mr. Hines would also support
> keeping 1930 Census from public access? Works out to the same thing -- and
> as far as the children -- if anybody thinks they can keep track of children
> of these many-times married parents these days, they may as well give up.
>
> I, peronally, get a great many comments and queries from the most recent
> generation asking about their families -- fathers and mothers born in the
> 1930's and 1940's -- people you'd think they would have known about -- but
> they don't. I feel that by doing things the way we have been doing them, we
> are generating valuable interests that may someday straighten out the messes
> we are in now with our family lives. Genealogy is a wonderful hobby and
> it's always rewarding to see young people get involved -- no matter what
> their station in life. Thrills me, in fact. It shows they have an interest in
> family and that's something many have been away from far too long.
>
> Shirley

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