From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Feb 24 18:58:50 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 k1P1wojb022940; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:58:50 -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 k1P1wmDh025754 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:58:48 -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 k1ONTLFI017640 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:29:21 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1ONTLg3017639 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:29:21 -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 k1OEgxFI016684 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:42:59 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1OHCFKh011214 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:12:15 -0700 X-Envelope-From: ancestryproject@gmail.com Fri Feb 24 10:12:15 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 k1OHCFjb011205 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:12:15 -0700 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.196]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1OHCCp2023595 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:12:13 -0700 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h30so255846wxd for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:12:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=IRhdEE3zsuiFgYcsMbCIPZL+KR23sdBklP6GRMh4aCvAufVWUZhsrC0DXc7r0mCdzzEY05UECicy1qMDeZ2f2zx5r4M9WsuDOtJucMd5wk6eYEPU2cp/FSOAsikxkDsLDxoJU7xIefwDpKimYw43++4N7HHJJdhrmA1nVukczCE= Received: by 10.70.126.12 with SMTP id y12mr3245657wxc; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:12:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.65.11 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:12:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:12:13 -0800 From: Richard To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline 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 k1OHCFjb011205 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: sharing of information - legalities This is and interesting topic. As a start, I don't think anyone has a right to protect factual information about themselves. There are plenty of businesses that are only too willing to sell information about living individuals in the US. Even if you have copyrighted a web site or other work that contains the information, the copyright will only protect the presentation and original material (like stories and such) that you created. The underlying facts about the individuals are not protected. No one needs permission to publish facts about individuals -- living or dead. And facts would include most of the information that genealogists search for. So even if you take precautions for your compilations, you might find your information out there on the Internet. I think that's just the way it is these days. The Internet has just brought it out in the open. On 2/24/06, ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com 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 -- Richard http://goepel.ancestryproject.com/ Grow your own family tree! http://iraq.ancestryproject.com/ Iraq War Veterans Memorial