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From: "Alvie L. Davidson" <>
Subject: Client Files Disposition
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:32:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20050202161703.28643.qmail@web52908.mail.yahoo.com>


Recently I was asked by a member of APG about an individual selling
their business and what should be done with files or client lists. This
is my response to her.

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The investigators personal papers would or should be donated to a good
repository but files containing investigated data and material should
not be donated unless it might be materials which would otherwise be in
the public domain. I have so many old files that I will probably some
day destroy most of them. Recently I went through some of my older
files and began returning them to the client and telling them that I was
purging my files and this portion which belonged in my office I was
returning to them. Only one person said they did not want it and that I
should just destroy it. Does that pretty much get the answer you were
asking?

Alvie L. Davidson CGRS
CGRS, Certified Genealogical Record Specialist, is a service mark
of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license
by board-certified associates after periodic competency evaluations.





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