I just uploaded a revised Campbell-Blackwell-Lugg tree as RootsWeb
WorldConnect database CaPaNe. It now has 4315 individuals and 2038
marriages.
Some of you may be surprised to see that among the newly names newly are
Rutsor P. Erway (1915 - 1998) and another non-Campbell, Lloyd Owlett
(1925 - 1999). In both cases their wives had Blackwell connections.
Until very recently, I kept the information about most living members of
our "clan" on my laptop only. That was to better protect the privacy of
living people. But it made double work entering data on the older folks
on both computers. Because my laptop isn't working at present, I
started adding material for ALL cousins, regardless of age, to my
desktop computer.
I'm now relying on options available in RootsWeb's upload process to
remove data about living people. The way I have the upload process set
at present, living people are not removed from the tree, but their first
names, and middle names or initials if present, are changed to
'Living'. And specific data about people the upload process classifies
as living, such as birth dates, marriage dates, residences, etc. is
supposedly removed.
The upside is that I'm now only entering data into one database, which
is well backed up. The downside is that the published CaPaNe tree will
be "cluttered with lots of entries for "Living" this or that. You will
see the surname of their spouse, if known and living, you may see each
of their children - also listed a s 'Living". And, if their parents are
shown, they will either show up as 'Living', or with full name and data,
if deceased.
Computer Security Note 2.
Last time I mentioned McAfee's free SiteAdvisor program, which works
with Internet Explorer and FireFox, but not as yet with other browsers,
such as Opera.. There's an additional thing about SiteAdvisor that some
of you may like. When you use a search engine -- such as Google, Yahoo,
Ask, etc. -- after each link retrieved as answers to your search,
SiteAdvisor places an indicator whether or not it considers that link's
web site to be safe. You see the rating of the site before you visit
it, which I think is neat. "Safe" sites are indicated by a check mark
inside a green circle. Unrated sites are indicated by a question mark
inside a gray circle. Presumably there would be some mark inside a red
circle if it considered the site "unsafe." I find comfort in having
that kind of feed back BEFORE I visit some unknown, or new to me,
website. Unfortunately, that feature doesn't seem to work with searches
made through meta-search engines, such as DogPile, that submit your
question to a number of the major search engines "all in one blow", as
the brave little tailor would say.