Margaret, If you distribute you family history in HTML (Web page format) be sure to warn the recipients not to put it up on the Web. Identity theft and pedophiles are real threats. Putting a family history on the web could be an invitation to both. In fact, this a good reason not to do that. Every family has at least one moron who impervious to even the most emphatic warning. Phil MScheffler <mscheffl@twcny.rr.com> wrote: With most of the more popular genealogy programs one can also create a web site which can be put on a cd or dvd and be opened on the recipients computer with one's web browser. But there again, like the narrative reports, one would not get every single person in one's database. Margaret Scheffler

Phil may be correct that the recipients of our research may not be as alert to issues of privacy as those of us monitoring the lists and message boards on a regular basis. Hopefully most of us are careful what we place online and OMIT the living people and most details of their lives. If we are sending material to a particular branch of our close family we may well want to send information including living people. Personally, I send "ancestor reports" PRINTED ON PAPER and do not send WebPages (even for home use) sent in a format that can easily be put online. I do have a database on WorldConnect but it omits living people. I don't believe that those planning identity theft and pedophiles are generally scanning the web for genealogy web pages for their targets. There are easier ways to get information. BUT home addresses, social security numbers, telephone numbers of living people, perhaps where they are employed and such should NOT be material we researchers make public to the whole world. I don't put most personal details in my database even for reference for myself; then there is no chance what I send out to anyone else will include such. I was NOT RECOMMENDING sending family information in web page format, though I was not discouraging it either. I was just providing information to the writer of a query that web pages can be created within many genealogy programs. Most of these have privatizing features and hopefully people creating these will think about what information they send on for appropriateness for a variety of reasons. Margaret Scheffler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Turner" <tutor7798@yahoo.com> To: <turner@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [TURNER] Fw: How do you give all of your the information toyourfamily ? > If you distribute you family history in HTML (Web page format) be sure to > warn the recipients not to put it up on the Web. Identity theft and > pedophiles are real threats. Putting a family history on the web could be > an invitation to both. In fact, this a good reason not to do that. Every > family has at least one moron who impervious to even the most emphatic > warning. > > Phil > > MScheffler <mscheffl@twcny.rr.com> wrote: > > > With most of the more popular genealogy programs one can also create a > web site which can be put on a cd or dvd and be opened on the recipients > computer with one's web browser. But there again, like the narrative > reports, one would not get every single person in one's database.