From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Feb 24 18:56:08 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 k1P1u8jb021697; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:56:08 -0700 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 k1P1u7id024430 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:56:07 -0700 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 k1ONQeFI017602 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:26:41 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1ONQeWb017601 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:26:40 -0500 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 k1OD8ZFI016515 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:08:35 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1OFbob6004623 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:37:50 -0700 X-Envelope-From: martinfamilytree@gmail.com Fri Feb 24 08:37:50 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 k1OFbojb004612 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:37:50 -0700 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.196]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1OFbnFI028822 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:37:50 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i20so306281wra for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:37:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=tSPhcHxt2iYb5uTe6IYvgG30E1/83h86vKlscJeBxB7Ft5WnbSv6HJrtfVODlY8JAIKY3JblpRbHMtoNYRdonaaG8MzPMVxP0toA6+sd3Li92jB8cqnRCnRueehDlmJ3ABkWhjJp4MptKQbFSgctxTThw1nCvKSIFhIvWA5KRGk= Received: by 10.64.213.14 with SMTP id l14mr1324561qbg; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:37:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.191.12 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:37:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:37:41 -0600 From: "ctm 007" To: bobbiev@swbell.net Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] sharing of information - legalities Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <43FECD2F.696.24BA96@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <43FECD2F.696.24BA96@localhost> 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 Hi Bobbie, I share your concern about personal information on the web about living relatives. However, when one sends information to the web it goes through an ISP (Internet Service Provider) and those employees plus government law enforcement agencies all have access to the data in each and every email message. If the genealogy website, say a personal home page, is not secured, then all that data is available to those scanning the Internet for personal information; and people in Russia, Iran, China and most countries of the world are scanning the Internet constantly. The only true safe websites are those maintained by banks and large corporations and the military. I'm not sure that any genealogy websites are safe; maybe someone will clear this up. Carl On 2/24/06, Bobbie wrote: > > I have been researching lately and found information on the web at > different genalogical > sites for my immediate family. The information contains birth dates and > places for > people who are alive today. > > I have shared my family tree with many people who are related to me. I > have NEVER given > anyone permission to give out my information to others in a public forum. > > I hope all of you will think about this when you are placing your family > history and/or > gedcom on genealogical sites. If someone has shared their genealogy with > you they are > not giving you permission to publish it to the web. > > There are programs that will strip the info from a genealogy database on > living > individuals. We should all be using that when we give out info to others > that is not > ours to share. > > Genealogy.com is one example among many. Does anyone have a way of > contacting them to > find out who has place information there without the permission of the > original people > involved? I have searched their website but cannot find any information > concerning how > to contact them to get my personal information removed from their site. > > Thanks, Bobbie > >