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shan42
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Living relatives
« on: Monday 28 September 09 15:50 UTC (UK) »
Where do you all stand with adding living relatives to a public family tree?

I have put some family initials only on a private tree, but I've recently had some contact from a family researcher (a genuine one) who asked for my parents names. I told him one of them but didn't give any other details as I'm not sure what to do.
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Mitchell, Irish, Solloway - Worcs
Rainsford - B'ham
Blackwell - Glos
Benton - B'ham
Hadwin - London
Linfield - Surrey
Shropshire Lass
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Re: Living relatives
« Reply #1 on: Monday 28 September 09 16:49 UTC (UK) »
I put LIVING and the surname on anything open to the general public.  No other details.

It's difficult with a direct contact asking for details.  Do you trust this person not to put living people's details out on the internet?  Other people may find the information out for themselves and then you have little control over what they do with it.   
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DALBY - Suffolk and, after 1860, Birmingham.
EBENEZER - Cardiganshire & Glamorgan.
GARVEY and GRAHAM - Mayo.
HUBBARD - Birmingham.
MAUND and LEWIS - Shropshire and Birmingham.
MORGAN(S) - Cardiganshire.
SLADE - Somerset and Worcester.
shan42
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Re: Living relatives
« Reply #2 on: Monday 28 September 09 17:02 UTC (UK) »
I know the person is a genuine tree-builder and a distant relative as they've been doing it since the early 1970s at least - I told him my mother's and her sister's first & married names but not their D.O.B.s or where they live etc etc, as far as I'm concerned that could be found on a voter's list and in census records for anyone to search for.
If he asks for further information I think then, it'd be best to politely decline.
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Mitchell, Irish, Solloway - Worcs
Rainsford - B'ham
Blackwell - Glos
Benton - B'ham
Hadwin - London
Linfield - Surrey
Nick29
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Re: Living relatives
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 29 September 09 09:13 UTC (UK) »
If the person has been tree building for nearly 40 years, and has to ask you fairly basic questions, they can't be very good, can they ?

I wouldn't give out any details about living people, unless I was 100% sure of who the person was, and that they were trustworthy.
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Best Wishes, Nick.

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shan42
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"Genealogists do it with dead people"
Re: Living relatives
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 29 September 09 10:02 UTC (UK) »
It was one of the Longweb site people, maybe they just didn't go down our route as my relative only had daughters - no sons to carry on the family name.
Another of their contributors wrote to my grandfather in 1973, but he's long dead.
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Mitchell, Irish, Solloway - Worcs
Rainsford - B'ham
Blackwell - Glos
Benton - B'ham
Hadwin - London
Linfield - Surrey
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