--part1_d3.46ebe51.2652e495_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_d3.46ebe51.2652e495_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <listadmin-bounces@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yh03.mx.aol.com (rly-yh03.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.35]) by air-yh03.mail.aol.com (v73.12) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 May 2000 13:07:56 -0400 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [209.85.6.27]) by rly-yh03.mx.aol.com (v71.10) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 May 2000 13:07:26 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA27632 for ARNEWTON-admin@lists2.rootsweb.com; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:07:21 -0700 (PDT) X-From_: history@jasper.yournet.com Tue May 16 10:07:20 2000 Received: from bl-3.rootsweb.com (bl-3.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.19]) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27612 for <ARNEWTON-L@lists2.rootsweb.com>; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:07:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jasper.yournet.com (IDENT:root@jasper.yournet.com [206.96.230.34]) by bl-3.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21190 for <ARNEWTON-L@rootsweb.com>; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from erd0150 (port01.jasper.yournet.com [206.96.230.35]) by jasper.yournet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA17557; Tue, 16 May 2000 12:13:00 -0500 Message-ID: <008001bfbf59$29fcef60$23e660ce@erd0150> From: "Newton County Historical Society/ Bradley House Museum" <history@jasper.yournet.com> To: <ARNEWTON-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: <pbialk@concentric.net> Old-Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:34:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list Subject: {not a subscriber} Concerns of Privacy and Permission to use material X-Envelope-To: ARNEWTON-L To all researchers, gatherers, and users of net sites and GEDCOM files: I am hearing concerns voiced about personal, private information being placed on the internet for all to see. Concern # 1 People are seeing their own carefully researched information being posted without permission or notification on others' personal internet sites. Researchers spend many hours carefully researching connections, piece by piece. There is not much more disheartening than discovering a new connection to the family has been posted the next week on someone's internet site for the whole world to grab for free, for nothing, and for no thanks. People once willing to share are becoming shy about sharing. I do not blame them. Concern # 2 People feel that their privacy is being invaded. LDS Family Search Site requires that every bit of information placed in their file be placed there WITH express and written permission from each living person. This is how they say it: You warrant that you have obtained any permissions necessary from the holder of such rights to submit the information included in your GEDCOM file and to authorize use of the information as described in this agreement; specifically, you warrant that you have obtained permission ********************************** from any living persons included in your GEDCOM file to submit their information and authorize its use as described in this agreement. We must allow people who are still alive to maintain their privacy. I, myself, will no longer send GEDCOM files with living persons' information in them, because, once information leaves my hands, I can no longer guarantee that the information will be treated respectfully. I believe that WE Must show some restraint as to what we put in our gedcom files and on our web pages. We SHOULD voluntarily do so. Let's please police ourselves before someone MUST begin to police us. Thomas Niswonger President, Newton County Historical Society --part1_d3.46ebe51.2652e495_boundary--