What to do when someone

wants you to send them data

Carole Riley
TMG Sydney User Group
12 Feb 2011

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 What do you ask?
• Will you get something back?
• Where’s the relationship between us?
• Will my data appear on Ancestry (or similar)?
• What name are you interested in?
• How many names do we have in common?
• How did you find me?
• Are they in the right geographical area?
• What are the names and dates from your data?
• What do you have that I don’t?
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 How do you decide?
• Share more specific info later
• What can they offer me?
• Need to spread the wealth
• Privacy – will they respect it?

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 What do you share?
• Living people? Depends on how close your relationship
with them is, and how well you trust them
• Branch of the family in question
• Sensitive information
• Images?
– Photos
– Documents
• Sources
• No dates on living people
• Take out middle names (manually)

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 What format do you send?
• Descendants chart
• Family group sheet-style
• Gedcom?
• As little as possible
• By email
– PDF
– Text in email
• CD of relevant branch to close relatives
• SecondSite
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 How do you ask for information
• Send blank family group sheets to relatives so
they know what you want, with parents’
names, etc
• Send it on paper so they can correct it and
send it back
• Remember that they may not be able to read
a pedigree chart, etc

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