Why have your data online? • Share with others – Family – Other researchers – Posterity – Allow others to find you – Disaster plan – backup • Why not share? – Steal your data – Misuse (add yours to theirs) – Privacy – Identity theft
Which people? • Living people – names only • Or exclude living people altogether • Stop in the generation before everyone’s dead • Just symbols for numbers and genders of children • Just direct ancestors (even the ones without children!), siblings, descendants • One branch of family
Which pictures? • Photos of people – living or dead? • Put a watermark on the photo to deter theft • Resolution of photo (can be a clue to who stole it) • Ancestry now tells you who has downloaded your photos • Copyright – ask permission if you didn’t take it (not an image of an image) • Photos taken before 1955 are out of copyright unless copyright has been renewed/extended • Moral rights of photographs – get a lawyer – using a photo for uses for which it was not intended • Ancestry claims any data put on their site belongs to them – watch out! • Posterity ???
Images of documents • BDM certificates are copyright • Trade certs, qualifications, degrees, may go beyond what you would be willing to share – not living people • Parish registers • Read the conditions on the archives’ films and website • Census images from a paid site
Where do you put your data? • Paid website – GenesReunited (the Facebook of the genealogy world!) – Ancestry – MyHeritage etc • Own website – Second Site from TMG data
Second Site • http://tmg.reigelridge.com/SecondSite.htm • People – http://ss.johncardinal.com/secpeople.htm – http://tmg.reigelridge.com/SecondSite-included.h tm • Exhibits – http://ss.johncardinal.com/exhibits.htm
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