ETHICS-IN-GENEALOGY-L Archives

From: "Chris Eddy" <>
Subject: RE: [Ethics] Mailing Lists and Web Sites
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 21:57:17 -0700
In-Reply-To: <003a01c43afd$af59c790$9291c8cf@OWNER4ILK49AQS>

Thank you all, this is interesting and quite helpful info. Denise

-----Original Message-----
From: Yvonne Evans [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:24 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Ethics] Mailing Lists and Web Sites

Hi Valda,

The best I could answer is these internet sites:

National Genealogy Society, Genealogical Standards:
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comstandards.htm

The Board for Certification for Genealogists, Code of Ethics and
Conduct, Washington DC:
http://www.bcgcertification.org/aboutbcg/code.html

Association of Professional Genealogists, APG Code of Ethics:
http://www.apgen.org/ethics/index.html

Mistakes and Misdemeanor, Staying Legal With Internet Copyrights, by
Rhonda McClure: http://www.thegenealogist.com/art3.htm

Los Angeles Family History Centre (Church of Latter Day Saints), Minding
Your Manners in Family History,
Rules of the Road for All Genealogists:
http://www.lafhc.org/begin.htm#manners

Hope this helps you!

Yvonne Evans
Victoria BC Canada
----- Original Message -----
From: Valda Napier
To:
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Ethics] Mailing Lists and Web Sites


Hi and thank you all, for replying to my message.

Mailing Lists: When people put their family particulars on a Mailing
List
to request further information, does anyone have the right to collect
this
information off the Roots Archive List and compile it on their own CD
and
Sell the CD ? The Compiler has asked permission from some people, but
not
everyone and it has been a very big shock and surprise to some people.

Is the information then clarified as being available in the "public
domain"
once it is on the Mailing List ?

Web Sites: A person takes information, from another Web site and
claims it
as their own, without acknowledging where the information came from?
The
personal information has only been found by off chance, when trawling
the
Internet.

Web Sites: Is it correct to collect all one-name Family Names and
compile a
Family Web site with the names they have collected ? The respective
families will not be known, as it is just a project of compiling
names, but
eventually the respective families will find out.

Personally, I think all of the above are unethical, except for the
last one,
until a link has been located. However, I would like to hear your
response
as these issues have just occurred on a certain Mailing List and
another
Mailing List is beginning regards these Ethical issues in Genealogy.
I do
not think they are aware that a Mailing List already exists on this
subject.

I look forward to your present views, even though all of these queries
have
possibly been dealt with previously by this List.

Many thanks
Valda

This thread:

• Is Anyone on the List ? by "Valda Napier" <>
  • Re: [Ethics] Is Anyone on the List ? by Valorie Zimmerman <>
  • RE: [Ethics] Is Anyone on the List ? by "Chris Eddy" <>