What is the rule of thumb for creating Family Webpages for the internet? Do you include living persons? If so do you just leave off their birth date? Just put year? or nothing at all? Do you leave of anything else? If so what? (Other than the obvious like address, phone no, SSN) Thanks for any advice on this, Mark __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

Mark, I would NEVER put a living person's name or info. on-line without permission. Most genealogy pages and files that I've seen do not include the names of or info.on living persons. Instead of a name, the word "living" or "living surname" is included. However, some people do choose to include names and birth dates of living persons. I guess they are not worried about predators or theft identity or any of the other reasons often cited for not including such info. A guy on another list lit into me one time; he said it was dumb to think that someone up to no-good would look at a genealogy webpage to find victims. Maybe; maybe not. What always surprises me are the many non-genealogy family webpages out there that include names, ages, addresses, hobbies, church affiliation, occupation, and even photos of the whole family, including the children. Gives new meaning to "just letting it all hang out." Herma What is the rule of thumb for creating Family Webpages for the internet? Do you include living persons? If so do you just leave off their birth date? Just put year? or nothing at all? Do you leave of anything else? If so what? (Other than the obvious like address, phone no, SSN) Thanks for any advice on this, Mark