Re: Publishing a tree online #general
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Joseph Hirschfield
I sent my tree to relatives in hard copy form and wouldn't you know, one
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of them published the entire tree online without asking me. Once you send out this information you loose all control of containing the data. Joe Hirschfield Portage, MI HIRSCHFELD, HIRSZFELD, LINDENBAUM, BUCHSBAUM, BUXBAUM-Skwarzawa, Glinyany, Sielec Bienkow, Jaryczow Nowy-GALICIA MINOWICKI, MINOFF, MINWITZKI-Brest-Litovsk, Wyskae-Litovsk- BELARUS
In a message dated 4/23/2011 10:20:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
cousintrudy@comcast.net writes: I asked my family before I put the information online. 2 ladies immediately contacted me and said *No*. I already had identity theft in my life and once is more than enough. People are paranoid today. I respected their wishes and have not put my database online. They said I could put names only that would be OK. Hence I am not growing as fast as I would like. Instead I send a PDF file to anyone that would like it. As was said, genealogy does not cause 'identity theft' as all that information is already online but people are still afraid.
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