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What to put on your family tree

website

Carole Riley
4th Annual TMG Sydney Conference
9 April 2011

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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

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How much do you publish?
• Bare bones approach
– BDM, year only
– Enough to identify but not giving it all away
– All the names, one date (year) to anchor
– Exclude living people
– Limited photos and documents
• Restricted access to website
• Carrot to tempt people to contact
• Once bitten twice shy!
• Send a CD instead
• Ask for info before sending more
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Copyright
• www.copyright.org.au
• Fact sheets on copyright for family history and
photographs

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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

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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 ???

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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

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Which tag types?
• Depends on whether you will get a result
• Name!
• BDMU only?
• Occupations, census
• Immigration/emigration
• Custom web-publishing tags (notes, links to
html pages)
• Leave out the rest
– Custom research tags
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Do you include sources?
• Yes – more authoritative
• No – contact me
• No – source may be a person
• Yes – so people aren’t constantly asking for
your source
• No – I want something in return

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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

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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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