I would not put any personal information on any one living. I use the name and all other info. "Private" Ellie Sftrail@aol.com wrote: > If any of you have time this month (or next...) to read this article about > copyrighting genealogical information, at > > http://www.interment.net/column/commentary/19990915.htm > > would you please think about how this applies to the two Handley history > books we are in the process of putting on-line? I mean this in reguards to > publishing the birth dates, old addresses and places of business, children's > names, marital status, etc. on-line of people who at least were living at the > time the booklets were originally published. We have the written permission > of the two authors to put these books on-line. Do we risk anything by > putting this info on-line? > > One solution I can think of would be to put the complete book on-line for a > short period of time, and announce the URLs to this list. Then those of us > who want a chance to download the web pages to our own PCs may do that. > Afterwards, that on-line books (or the sections with living people data) > could be removed from the internet. Those who got copies could volunteer, if > they want, to do look-ups from the books. > > Others have suggested that we delete the info for living people and replace > the data with the word "LIVING", or some such. I hesitate to make those > changes to someone else's books. Our permission to upload them doesn't > extend to that, I think. > > My mother-in-law was surprised to see that her address and phone number are > readily accessable by anyone on the WHOWHERE people finder site. School > teachers' salaries here in Kansas are supposed to be accessable by anyone > since they are public record. So I guess I'm asking if anyone knows what > kinds of data are public record, in regards to genealogy data on living > persons. > > Thanks! (No hurry!!) > Nancy