What is the web policy on mentioning living individuals when someone is doing a search? Char

All of you can put your phone number in Google and your name and address will come up. Then you can get a map. You can also click on the telephone and have your number removed. There is no privacy anymore. I can put my name in and see where I have posted to some of the boards. Our county is posting court information with SSN, that includes building permits and deeds. You have to go to the courthouse in person to have that removed. Leslie

Greetings from Streator, When I started posting to this site, I generally did searches for 1920 or before. Then the 1920 and 1930 Census was put on line; the State of Illinois put a list of death certificates up to 1950; the "white pages" or a Google search will give you current information; hospitals started putting new births with names AND pictures on line; the Streator newspaper has obituaries from 1999 on line in 1993, the Streator newspaper published almost 60 pages of local family trees. Currently, if names and dates have been published in a family tree book, I will pass that information along. If the author has included his name, and that name can be found in the "white pages", I will also list that information and cite him as the source. Or, if the author has included a flyer with the book that gives his address, I will post that also. I know the first time I went to look up a will, I thought that I would have to have information showing relationship. All the lady wanted was the number from the index, and to let me know that I had better not jam the copy machine. Joanie [email protected] wrote: > > What is the web policy on mentioning living individuals when someone is doing > a search? > Char > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237