Recently a non-profit group that I work with published a book that contains Funeral Home Records from 1944 to 1949. I placed a few of the records on one of my web sites. They were records for my family members. Most of the "survivors" are now dead, but then some are still living. It does give the location of where they lived in the 1940s, but most of them do not live there now. (My Mom lived in Atlanta at the time, but moved here about 30 years ago.) I have one "volunteer" that wants to submit all kinds of material to a web site. I really enjoy reading the old newspaper articles, but she has now started sending more recent articles. I have told her that we cannot place wedding announcement, birth announcements and obits online with information about living people. She got very nasty about it and said that if I could not put ALL of the material that she submits online to just take down the other. Some of the records go back to the mid 1800s and are very helpful to researchers. I have even found obits about relatives that I did not know belong to my families. (Children that were born and died between census years.) Hate to lose all her information, but will take it down before being forced to accept information about living people. My personal cut off date is 1950, but do have a few things after that date. I like the idea of the Privacy Policy, as it will give me something to refer to when telling a person that I can not place information about living people online. I am thinking about adopting a similar policy for my personal family web site. (Don't knowing have information about living people online, but by placing the statement on the web site, maybe it will cut down on the e-mails for why I don't have cousin so and so in my files.) Doris > [Original Message] > From: Bosque Lover <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 4/26/05 10:48:28 AM > Subject: Re: [GAGEN] BIZ Privacy Policy > > > 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. > > Another CC (in GA?--can't remember), said "if they ain't dead, it ain't genealogy". > That's basically the philosophy I use on my sites, but things do slip by these ole > eyes. > > I hope they don't mind me "borrowing" their quote. > Bettie <>< > -- > The shampoo promised me extra body--I gained three pounds. > > > > > ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > Confused about Copyrights? Review USGenWeb's policy on copyrights at: > http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html