I am assuming Bosque Lover meant Birth, Death, Marriage records which you have to request from the state, not the Census records which have been released for public consumption. I believe that Census Records at Ancestry.com are only available via a paid subscription. I think offering those on our websites would be a benefit to the researchers who do not have those paid subscriptions. And Census Records are not available for more current years, isn't this due to the "privacy" of those included in the census? I know I do not want my name and birthdate along with those of my children and our address posted on someone's genealogy website. There's a difference in sharing information about deceased ancestors and just listing members of a family. There should be a reasonable "cut off date" for current information allowed on sites to prevent someone's living relatives from being included. > Ummm -- the entire census is available at Ancestry. > Let's remove all census records from our web sites and > just put a link ot Ancestry. > > --- Bosque Lover <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Records made available by a state usually require > > specific information > > > by the requester and a fee for each record. Just > > because a recordset is > > > made available by a state does not mean we should > > abandon ehtics and > > > publish them wholly. > > > > I'm not real sure why we would want to publish on > > our web sites that which is so > > readily available elsewhere either. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > Confused about Copyrights? Review USGenWeb's policy on copyrights at: > http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html >

> There should be a reasonable "cut off date" for current information allowed on > sites to prevent someone's living relatives from being included. I would like to see a cut off date to match the census (70 years) I don't get my way very much though <g> It doesn't really matter a whole lot to me cause I remove items anyway. That is, if I catch 'em, or if someone requests it. Bettie <>< -- The shampoo promised me extra body--I gained three pounds.