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From: The Julians <>
Subject: Re: [PaCambri] Obits
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:29:40 -0700
In-Reply-To: <a9.5575a90c.2db48b75@aol.com>


I've heard one of the easiest ways for identity thieves to get their
information is through genealogy information posted on the
Internet. Always hide any information you send or post on living
individuals, including yourself and your children. If you are unsure if a
person is still living or not, you can probably set your genealogy software
to automatically tag them as living at say age 100 to be safe. Some
software will only provide the name and block all other information or just
list them as "Living", but you must do this manually and adjust your
settings.

Being a novice at this and after about three months of exchanging
information with fellow researchers, I realized I had not done this and
they knew exactly who was in my wedding party and when and where I was
baptized and many things that were my personal information that I would
prefer was kept private until I'm dead and gone. Fortunately, I believe
everyone I exchanged information with was on the up-and-up and are really
researchers. Unknowingly I passed along information on other living family
members too who probably would be none too happy with me. Moral of the
story - check your settings before you hit the print report button and
share more information than you realized.

Donna




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