From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Apr 20 11:43:06 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3KHh6jb031703; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:43:06 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3KHh4Cw011128 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:43:04 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k3KFAMFI007463 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:10:22 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k3KFAMoT007462 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:10:22 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k3K97bFI005927 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:07:37 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k3KBe8xq001130 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:40:08 -0600 X-Envelope-From: logan@familytreeregistry.org Thu Apr 20 05:40:08 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3KBe8jb001121 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:40:08 -0600 Received: from blazecast9.rdns9.net (62.d0.5546.static.theplanet.com [70.85.208.98]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3KBe6X9005394 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:40:07 -0600 Received: from c-68-50-47-207.hsd1.va.comcast.net ([68.50.47.207] helo=ljk) by blazecast9.rdns9.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1FWXW2-00054q-M0 for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:40:07 -0500 From: "logan@FamilyTreeRegistry.org" To: Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:39:46 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200604200334.k3K3Y2h5012355@lists5.rootsweb.com> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - blazecast9.rdns9.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - rootsweb.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - familytreeregistry.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: 1.31 (*) BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Legality in making a family history book Deanna Cassidy asked whether it was necessary to receive permission from people in order to list them in a published family history, and mentioned that some of her family members had requested that their names be left out. Aside from legal and ethical questions, there is a very practical consideration here: if your relatives are upset at the way you are publicizing information, they are less likely to provide information to you in the future. To enable genealogical information to be shared sufficiently to find researchers with common interests, while respecting individuals' privacy, I created the free website www.FamilyTreeRegistry.org. You are welcome to provide details about your family tree(s) there, without having to provide individuals' given names, explain relationships between individuals (beyond being on the same tree), or even provide your own email address (you can be contacted through the website). By optionally associating ethnicities, places, religions, nobility status, and other details to surnames or family trees, researchers with common interests will still be able to identify your family trees as being of interest to them. I hope this will be a useful solution to genealogists concerned about privacy. Since GEDCOM is not required (not accepted, even, for privacy reasons) to register a family tree, you can even register trees that have not been computerized, such as trees published in old/rare books or manuscript trees stored in repositories. Best regards, Logan