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• Ancestry.com - Message Boards - Ethics in Genealogy

• Catudal Genealogy - Ethics and Genealogy, Part 1

• Catudal Genealogy - Ethics in Genealogy

• Ethics in Genealogy

  By Rhonda R. McClure

• Ethics in Genealogy

  From Simcoe County OGS.

• Ethics in Publishing Family Histories

  By Steve Danko.

• ETHICS-IN-GENEALOGY Mailing List (Archived on RootsWeb)

• FamilySearch Blog - Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas in an Online World

  By Lynn Broderick

• Genealogist Code of Ethics

  From the Savannah Area Genealogical Association.

• Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc. - Code of Ethics

• Genealogy.com - Twigs & Trees with Rhonda: Give Back My Ancestors

  By Rhonda R. McClure.

• Genetic Genealogy Standards

  A group of individuals, including genealogists, genetic genealogists, and scientists, have been working for the past year to develop a draft of genetic genealogy standards. The document is intended to provide ethical and usage standards for the genealogical community to follow when purchasing, recommending, sharing, or writing about the results of DNA testing for ancestry.

• IAJGS Ethics for Jewish Genealogists

  Ethics code of International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies.

• Minding Your Manners In Family History: Rules of the Road for All Genealogists

• National Genealogical Society - NGS Guidelines

  • Guidelines for Sharing Information with Others

  • Guidelines For Sound Genealogical Research

  • Guidelines for Using Records Repositories and Libraries

• Ten Commandments for Genealogists

  By Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern, about halfway through this text file.

• The Legal Genealogist - It bears repeating: just say no

  "Is it right (ethical) to avoid paying for a subscription to a site’s content by asking for a subscriber to locate the content for you?"