Gavin, "Cleansing" is the term used to remove from view those people in your online family tree that might still be alive. This would cover the European 100-year secrecy laws, as well as the American 72-year courtesy rule. In RW WorldConnect you can choose to not show a person that might be alive (no death date entered) or show only the surname with the given name as "Private" with no dates or additional information. In the USA we have no 100-year secrecy law, in fact it would be difficult to have one. It is common practice to have births and marriages, as well as deaths, announced in the newspapers, which puts that information into public domain. It is only a courtesy that we do not show living people. Fred At 10:50 AM 10/6/2009, you wrote: >From: Gavin Bell <g.bell@which.net> >Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] recording a name >To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <4ACAF763.9030300@which.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Fred H Held wrote: > > >... > > > >You have complete control of a RootsWeb WorldConnect submittal. You > >can specify the "cleansing" parameters, as well as many other display > >and download options. > > > >I don't like the sound of "cleansing". What does this do? > > >Gavin Bell ____________________________________________________________ See the difference professional window cleaning can make. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/BLSrjpYWvrYmgz8Ij3I4GElYOVhfjM8MHYb0BXHM87EQrEQYNXCJFj0N5Hy/

Fred: I am sure others are going to reply similarly that our newspapers print reports of births marriages and deaths every day and it may be possible to find them in back issues of newspapers. It is the ability to randomly search for peoples names and expect to find a record that is subject to the 100 yr rule. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred H Held" <fhheld@netzero.net> > Gavin, > > "Cleansing" is the term used to remove from view those people in your > online family tree that might still be alive. This would cover the > European 100-year secrecy laws, as well as the American 72-year > courtesy rule. In RW WorldConnect you can choose to not show a person > that might be alive (no death date entered) or show only the surname > with the given name as "Private" with no dates or additional information. > > In the USA we have no 100-year secrecy law, in fact it would be > difficult to have one. It is common practice to have births and > marriages, as well as deaths, announced in the newspapers, which puts > that information into public domain. It is only a courtesy that we do > not show living people. > > Fred