Hi All:
I'd like to pose a question or maybe conduct a survey re: a recent concern I have.
How do you feel about putting a list of
descendants that includes living relatives on an email list like this or on a web page
that is open to the public?
I've been thinking a lot about this recently, because I'm ready to post my
information and I'm having some bad feelings about this.
My list begins at my grandparents and most of the names are living relatives, many of them
young people. I don't like the idea that
a "lurker" on the internet could have access to some of this data and use it to
get close to someone. I'm thinking of them
pretending that they know "so and so" or were good friends with "so and
so" in order to cultivate a friendship on-line.
I notice that at the Mormon Family Research Center, most of the genealogies I pulled had
blank data and a statement "living
relative" when this occurred. This has also been the case in most of the GED com
data I've looked at. It makes me think that these
professionals, who've been around for a while, may recognize problems with publishing
this information publicly.
I have no problem with sharing the information one-on-one, but if I don't post this
myself, I wouldn't want anyone else posting it
either!!! I know a lot of the parents in my family are not real comfortable about this,
even though they recognize that I would
never have been able to get the information I've gotten, if people hadn't been
willing to share. What are your feelings regarding
this?