Guidance from Moderators Required please :At the outset of this thread, the OP was requested to remove the christian names of persons named as "possible fathers" until it could be ascertained they were no longer living. As it transpired, both men were found to have died "relatively recently" (1996 and 2009).
In deciding to try and assist the OP with information which may have aided her search, I elected to send details via the PM facility here.
My purpose in doing so was twofold - but the most important aspect was to endeavour to protect the reputations of the two men who had initially been named. Certainly the christian names of the men had been removed (once) but have reappeared in later postings in this thread with links to cemetery records along with other personal information.
I put myself in the "shoes" of the families of these two men and wondered how I might feel if the name of say, my father, grandfather or a beloved uncle was bandied about in a thread of this type concerning paternity issues.
And considered also what effort might be required to absolve the innocent ??
Many threads of the type, "searching for birthparents", seem to be brought to a swift halt here at RootsChat with the enquirers being directed to other forums which are better able to assist them.
So along with others, I am curious to know if RC's policy on this type of search has changed to allow for such an explosion of detail to be published in a publicly-viewable thread; all or any of which may result in damage to the reputations of randomly-named (fairly recently deceased) persons.
Your guidance / comments, would be much appreciated.
~ Lu
