From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Feb 24 18:57:47 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 k1P1vljb022485; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:57:47 -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 k1P1vkV0025217 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:57:46 -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 k1ONSJFI017619 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:28:19 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1ONSJ5s017618 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:28:19 -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 k1OECqFI016634 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:12:56 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1OGg7L1011387 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:42:07 -0700 X-Envelope-From: Kith-n-Kin@cox.net Fri Feb 24 09:42:07 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 k1OGg7jb011378 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:42:07 -0700 Received: from fed1rmmtao01.cox.net (fed1rmmtao01.cox.net [68.230.241.38]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1OGg4m0005871 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:42:04 -0700 Received: from TOWER ([68.0.155.47]) by fed1rmmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060224164044.DVKM15695.fed1rmmtao01.cox.net@TOWER>; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:40:44 -0500 From: "Kith-n-Kin" To: , Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] sharing of information - legalities Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:41:58 -0700 Message-ID: <002001c63961$3f355ab0$6401a8c0@TOWER> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <43FECD2F.696.24BA96@localhost> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by admin.rootsweb.com id k1OGg7jb011378 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Bobbie A couple of questions. (a) Where on "Genealogy.com" is the information? -- Specifically, the URL (web address) would help. What other places on the web have the information? Someone on this list may have an understanding of the mechanism of removal, if you can be specific. (b) What is posted that couldn't be gotten from public records? Like it or not, there is quite a bit of information about each of us "out there". I will be the first to admit that years ago, when I first got started in electronic genealogy, I sent "my" genealogy data to FTM for dissemination to the world. Of course, being not too smart, it also included my siblings, their spouses and children, my children, etc. Sorry to say, it is on CD #2, for all the world to see, and to copy, and to post anywhere on the internet they please. It is not "retrievable", or "changeable". It just *is*. However, I will say, that I love it when I come across a "live" but unknown relative, culled from public records, or someone's "oops". So, let us know, maybe we can help. At least with some of it. Pat (in Tucson) |-----Original Message----- |From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com |[mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bobbie |Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 08:09 |To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com |Subject: [ROOTS-L] sharing of information - legalities | | |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 | |