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From: "J. Davis" <>
Subject: [Ethics] Family Genealogy PublicationS & Privacy
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:14:15 -0700
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I have followed the comments on Internet information on living people. Is
it just the ease of acess/use/misuse that is the problem here?

I'm planning to publish a family genealogy in book form in the next year. I
will soon have to make a decision about how far down to print the
generations and what information I will include on each generation. I am
very interested in hearing what others think about this.

My family is pretty normal. We have children out of wedlock, given up for
adoption, and adopted into the family, and premature births less than nine
months after marriage. I am assuming that some sensitivity is required here
for current generations. Although I must admit that my 1700's ancestor is
given quite a lot of coverage for his antics with the ladies in the past.

In the interest of privacy do I just not include information on living
people? But that is part of the lure of purchasing such a book...to see
your own family's name in print, the linking of your own generation to those
in the past. It's also why a lot of people but the book anyway. All of the
compiled genealogies of the past have always brought down the information to
the then "present" generation.

Are we now required to not even mention someone who MIGHT now be living?

K.D. in OR



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