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National Genealogical Society | Guidelines 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.

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.

Privacy Issues - Cregan Ancestry

Free buttons for other genealogy websites to promote public awareness in regard to privacy issues and genealogy.

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

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.

GED2GO (GEDCOMs to go)

A utility program which automatically finds and removes living persons from GEDCOM files. GED2GO Version 4 runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista or later. Current Version is 4.02, November 9, 2007.

Res Privata

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.