Does this all mean that if we help someone when we find out by looking at records we have to prove our findings, in which case it isn't always possible to do so, data protection and all that
If I ask for help on RC I always try to double check what I have been told, same as if I help someone I hope they double check
This certainly is an eye opener as they say
Louisa Maud
Hi
Once a person has died the Data Protection Act (DPA) no longer applies to a record about a deceased individual. Although there may be limited redactions of names placed on the copy if people still alive are named in the document.
Odd really, because release of information under some Acts (like Health Act), nobody was redacted, unless the same document mentioned a totally unrelated incident, to which the requester had no right.
On that application Health professionals in immediate attendance were named, as they had signed the Report Forms, that my Son of 23 years had just died and the precise location.
Sorry, but on New Years Eve, it will be 5 years.
PhramaT,
Many of us are unlucky and things do happen to us that we feel are unfair, or we had no control over. Sometimes they come one after another and/or hit our confidence and feelings too.
When you lay down tonight to wake up fresher in the morning, please remember you are not alone, times are tough for many and others on Rootschat and elsewhere are feeling this too.
Keep up your good work on your Tree! I think of my Boy every day, I say a little prayer and of course I suddenly cry briefly for a couple of minutes every month or so, but having interests, genuine friends, beliefs and this hobby has also really helped me (despite suffering depression and Atrophy etc). Others are persevering through their life problems too.
Try and look for the good and positive too, when you start looking there is an awful lot of good out there. Look at all the genuine and meaningful comments on all these boards.
Trouble is TV news features mainly on the bad, (okay we need to know to be able to help one another) but we don't need negative TV news on the hour every hour! Because there are so many local people to us in our Communities, even ones here on these Rootschat Boards, who are all unsung heroes in their own way!!
We had a black woman coming round our Council office shaking a tin for a Cancer Charity, I felt I should go to her funeral and it was said she had raised £100,000s for the Charity just shaking that tin, what a great epitaph at the time.
What I'm trying to say is, there are many good people out there and try to keep positive yourself (don't let one or a few people upset you too much, despite it being awfully upsetting at the time, or each time it happens) and also you are definitely not alone!
Look after your Daughter too, top priority that precious one, who one day when older, will want to see what her Mummy set out, or perhaps your Grandchild, (like me) will want to know. I only wish I had Grandma's notes & photos & papers, of what my Grandmother was saying (even if they were Notes someone had made, based on what they were told) of the bits I recall when I was a wee boy.
One of the Quakers surnames she mentioned, was in an ancestor's Yorkshire property registration document that a kind Rootshatter had gone and got some year dates for, thank you - and after having a search of those years, I eventually got all those 6 document copies, the Rootschatter had originally found.
A collection has just appeared in an archive, mentioning several of those chaps connected with my ancestor, so I hope to see that soon. Only deposited 2015, but spanning 100s of years.
Keep your research safe and all of you out there look after yourselves and your nearest and dearest.
(My word, I have waffled), but enjoy the good times!
Take care, Mark
