Don, I agree with being careful about sharing. It has always been my natural impulse to want to share what I've found with others. However, after sharing with a distant cousin part (and thankfully only a small part) of the research that had taken me 7 years and much time and expense to find, he showed up at the next family reunion to proudly show me (not the brightest bulb, to say the least!) how he had copyrighted and published _my_ efforts with his name on it. Now I find he has also put this information, including our son's name and birth date, on the web...I believe at Family Tree Maker. (Is that a site?) I was livid, for the very reason expressed, possible identity theft. I would never post my private information on the web and certainly not my minor son's! I may follow your lead and get in touch and tell him to remove it. In your case you might want to contact the listmaster@rootsweb.com and demand this private information be removed if the individual who put it there refuses to do so. It isn't genealogical etiquette to publish private information on living people and certainly not in such a worldwide medium. That's my 2 cents. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Erickson <don_erickson@pcisys.net> To: <BROWN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [BROWN] Living people > If it is without their knowledge, I agree we shouldn't. > I have run into an even worse case -- there is a > Juanita Blankenship <jjjb@comwares.net> who somehow got > hold of a part of my research, and has put all my kids and > grandkids on rootsweb.com, without my permission. I have asked > her repeatedly to take them off, but she refuses. And to top it off, > she accuses me of being ashamed of my kids and grandkids if I don't > want her to put them on rootsweb.com. > So, we also have to be careful who we share our research with. > > Don Erickson, Colorado Springs CO > don_erickson@pcisys.net > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Maritoole@aol.com> > To: <BROWN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:24 AM > Subject: [BROWN] Living people > > > > I don't think you are supposed to put information about LIVING people on > > these lists. It can be used for identity theft. Marilyn > > > > > > > > ==== BROWN Mailing List ==== > contact list manager at judjack@rocketmail.com > Visit the Brown Surname Page for a listing of Brown's others are researching at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~myplace/brownsurnamepage.html > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > >