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From: Fridrik Skulason <>
Subject: Re: [Ethics] Ethics
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:48:09 +0000


>150 years. This information is often entered by people who directly related
>and knew the people first hand. I simply do not have the time or the funds
>to collect death certificates and other primary sources for these distant
>cousins, but do want to include them in my data. Once I have posted the
>information on WorldConnect I am often contacted with more information. It
>works for me.

My method of sharing information is quite different, but it works for me.
I put my database on the web, where people can browse their family trees.
If they find something they disagree with or have additional information,
they can click on the "Send Info" button. A pop-up window then appears,
where they can type the comment, and I will then receive it as an e-mail,
which incudes information on who makes the commend, and which individual
he/she is commenting on.

Some of those comments are useless, of course, but others have villed in
some of those annoying, remaining gaps.

-frisk

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