Further question. If the person has been dead at least a month, will anybody sue him if his identity is stolen? (Under a month conceivably the claim could be made it was done before death and dates were mixed, etc.) I don't believe we should put any living person's name on the internet for many reasons. Invasion of Privacy, possibility of connecting the person with parents and opening opportunity for identity theft, and others I do not think of offhand. Any other reason to keep it off for 70 years (that is the period the Census keeps individual records from publication, BUT it does not, I believe, search the records to remove those still living? Cliff Hayes ----- Original Message ----- From: "G M Free" <gmfree@juno.com> To: <NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 1:51 PM Subject: [NYOTSEGO] Confidentiality > "The presumption is, based on Confidentiality requirements, that a safe > rule to follow is NOT to post any information concerning anyone who has > been dead at less than 70 years. Family researchers may post a message > that they will share their information concerning members of their family > with other members of their family but need to be con- tacted off line. > SNIP > Leigh > > Leigh C. Eckmair, Historian > Town of Butternuts & > The Local History Collection > The Gilbertsville Free Library > Gilbertsville, NY, 13776" > ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ > > Yet I found a immediate family name ( a person who is much alive!) on > WorldConnect and rootsweb claims certain family genealogies on the site > are from another source and refused to delete the name of the living > person. Also rootsweb said something about a 1930 date being the cutoff > for names of the living being automatically eliminated. However if it's > from another source forget it. > > I contacted the submitter some years ago with no success. This year s/he > responded and I requested removal of the name. It did not happen and so I > said I did not wish to turn the matter over to an attorney. That did not > win any friends I can tell you, but within a day or so no family name of > a living person appeared . It is my firm opinion that rootsweb and any > other genealogy program ought to get with it and follow the pattern Leigh > has referred to. Leigh has commented on a very important subject. > GMFreeman > Fanaticism to Barbarism > Is Only One Short Step > > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > ==== NYOTSEGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list in digest mode send an email with > the word, unsubscribe,in the subject field & body of the message > to the following address: NYOtsego-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----