Dear Jean,
I understand how you feel about some families wanting to keep their history
private.
I also can tell you that at times I feel very frustrated. My partner and I
spent many hours combing national archives, shipping records and other
archives only to have people expecting and feeling entitled to the
information that we had gathered. I put my information on the internet in
the hope of contacting other relatives and also because I feel that history
is something that we are all entitled to know.
Regards Jenny
>From: "Jean Grigsby" <jgrigsby@bcni.net>
>Reply-To: sinclair@mids.org
>To: <sinclair@mids.org>
>Subject: Re: Sinclair Genealogy Digest Number 11
>Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:48:18 -0700
>
>My feelings derive from the many, many people who have requested that their
>family history not be used for public consumption. I can still recall my
>nephew calling me late one night as he had found my parents (his
>grandparents) listed on a website and only one child listed - me. He was
>extremely upset and to be quite frank so was I. I had never heard of the
>person and when contacted he admitted he had copied the data from a small
>family book I had published in 1970 - 29 years ago. I had only made 10
>copies for family members and unfortunately one of the recipients passed
>away and during this 20 year period it had ended up in an "in-laws" hands
>-
>a person not even related to the family. No, this was not my St. Clair
>side
>of the family but it is an example of the lack of integrity floating the
>web.
>My name, address, and date were typed on the title page so there could be
>no
>confusion that this was a personal family history book.
>
>This has become a concern for most professional genealogists and most of
>them are simply refusing to share their material. I refuse to allow a few
>to disrupt what I feel is an important goal - hence my refusal to send out
>material on any branch unless the person requesting the material is a
>proven
>descendant of that branch.
>
>Perhaps others will be as honest as I have been and state their true
>reasons
>or perceived need for a world-wide data base on the internet ?
>
>I seem to be the only person willing to bring it out other than a selected
>list of "respondees". Do any others on the site have any feelings on the
>subject?
>Jean
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Lena A L <lal@algonet.se>
>To: <sinclair@mids.org>
>Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 4:50 AM
>Subject: Re: Sinclair Genealogy Digest Number 11
>
>
> >Hi Jean,
> >
> >Jean Grigsby wrote:
> >>
> >> A suggestion. Instead of duplicating what others have already done (ie
> >> copying or duplicating the work of others), why don't all of us search
>for
> >> the unfound and unrecorded records.
> >
> >That is of course my main goal but that does not exclude the importance
> >of making as much Sinclair material as possible accessable/searchable
> >in a database, or when it comes to material that's subject to copywrite
> >referenses to it.
> >
> >Regards
> >Lena
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