[Foundation-l] Rodovid.org, family tree wiki, wishes to become a wiki project

[Benjamin Webb]

What about if you wanted to have yourself on a family tree could you do
that? (See my prewious comment)

On 31/03/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
>
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
> >Simply asking a person's permission would simply lead to chaos.  The
> >person whom you ask may agree, but his brother may not.  A 110 year rule
> >may be a little excessive.  The US census, for example, is in the public
> >domain after 72 years.  BMD announcements in newspapers are all a matter
> >of public record; telephone directories, property tax records and the
> >Social Security Death Index are all publicly available sources of
> >information.
> >
> >Ec
> >
> >
> The point of the 110 rule is that it does fit with almost all known
> privacy laws throughout the world, and for geneological research
> purposes is generally not that big of an inconvience.  Finding
> information for people who lived in the past century is usually fairly
> straight forward and can usually be done by asking a close relative that
> has personal knowledge and information about that person, or there are
> extensive public records as you have pointed out.  And keep in mind that
> the "rule" included allowing information about people born more
> recently, it is just that you had to have a clear death date to do so,
> such as from something like the Social Security Death Index or probate
> records (both public domain information as well).
>
> I don't know how useful telephone directories would be for geneological
> purposes other than to confirm that somebody with that name lived in a
> certain location, and perhaps they had a close relationship (not
> necessarily marriage) with somebody else.
>
> --
> Robert Scott Horning
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