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Articles and other online privacy resources:
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Ancestry.com - Exposing Our Families to the Internet
From Shaking Your Family Tree by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, C.G.
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Ancestry.com - Privacy in Genealogy : A Progress Report
By Candace L. Doriott. Genealogical computing v. 20.2 (Fall 2000). She is presenting the background regarding privacy issues in genealogy. She is discussing the attitudes and changes towards privacy issues. Includes a bibliography at the end of the article.
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Ancestry.com - Respect Privacy When Posting Family Information
Reminding researchers to be aware of the need to preserve the the privacy of living family members.
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Article by Mark Howells.
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Genealogy.com: Privacy and the Family Home Page
Maureen Taylor discusses tips she is giving to the reader. The tips are intended to help the reader to be a responsible genealogist. She poses three very important questions, How do they use the information you supply? Why do they need it, And is the information resold.
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New Privacy Threat: Genealogy?
From Wired News.
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NGS | Genealogical Standards | Standards For Sharing Information With Others
National Genealogical Society's standards regarding the sharing of genealogical research between researchers. It prescribes the importance of privacy of living family members, but also respect of copyright and other people's work.
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Oxymoron : Privacy and the Internet / by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG
Discusses the importance of remembering to consider the privacy of our living family members while we are communicating online and publishing online our various works. This article is found on the St. Clair County, Michigan website with permission from the author.
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Privacy Issues - Cregan Ancestry
Free buttons for other genealogy websites to promote public awareness in regard to privacy issues and genealogy.
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Share and Beware - Sharing Genealogy in the Information Age
Article by Mark Howells.
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Article by Margaret Mannix.
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USNews: Stolen identity - It can ruin your credit. And that's just the beginning
Article by Margaret Mannix.
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Software:
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Dave Naylor's Genealogy Program GeDStrip
The GeDStrip program creates HTML web pages from a standard GeDCom (available as an output file from most genealogy database programs). It excludes all data about living individuals from those pages, as well as all links for the remaining individuals.
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For MS-DOS, runs under Windows also. A utility program which automatically finds and removes living persons from GEDCOM files.
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For Windows. Software that privitizes a GEDCOM file.
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For Windows. An easy to use application for filtering private data from genealogy database (GEDCOM or GED) files. It can filter birth, death, marriage, adoption, notes, source and other details.
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