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From: "Chris Sackett" <>
Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] submissions
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:47:51 +0100
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> Kari Roehl wrote:
> Hello All- Being relatively new to this family association, I am somewhat
confused on who or where to submit my information to. Which website does it
get posted on? Somethings I want kept confidential, others not. Thanks!
Kari
>

Kari,

We're all new to the Association! And we're feeling our way a bit at this
early stage. I think I may have confused the issue somewhat by asking
members to send data to me to be added to the Register of Members database
which I am compiling in my capacity as Registrar. However, the main database
of Sackett family material is kept by TSFA Historian Thurmon King. The best
advice is to post your information on this Discussion List and then
everybody gets to see it. I can pick up the data to record in the Register
of Members and Thurmon can similarly use the data on his website. In any
event, if I were to receive any new data I would copy it to Thurmon. And I
know from his many posts that Thurmon is meticulous about sharing any new
material he gets by posting to this Discussion List. Posting to the
Discussion List also means that other members can update their own genealogy
databases.

As for the data you want kept confidential, just don't send it anywhere!
While sharing information is one of the fundamental purposes of the
Association, nobody is expected to reveal data that they would regard as
confidential. My own policy is not to publish data on people born after 1900
unless that data is already on public record, for example in a book, or the
descendants of the person concerned expressly request publication. If you
have a load of material that you are still not sure what to do with please
feel free to send it to me and I will help sort it out with you.

We hope in the not too distant future to have an official Association
website which will serve as a focal point for all Association matters, and
hopefully reduce some of this confusion.

Kind regards,
Chris

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