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The Theological Dictionary was sent to Cindy Casey in North Carolina and was signed for. END OF STORY!!
For those of you who have placed my information on your personal webpage without my permission, please be gracious enough to list me as your source.
For the following reason; I have removed all data from my website.
If you want to exchange information you can contact me by e-mail.
"Too many Internet genealogists sadly overlook the critical issue of privacy and their living relatives' fundamental right to privacy. Before uploading or E-mailing your family's personal details, please read on. Would you post a sign in front of your home, announcing your relative's names along with their birth dates and locations or any other identifying or personal information? Would you submit this information to your local newspaper? Would your local newspaper even be interested? Their goals are similar to ours (Internet genealogists) in that they need their articles to be of interest to the broadest range of readers. I am certain they would not waste any ink printing my family's personal data. It's not newsworthy or even the least bit interesting, except maybe to con artists or identity thieves that can and do use these personal details in many illegal ways. So then, what is the goal in publishing your family's personal information on the web? I can think of only one; you wish to reach as many cousins as possible. You can easily accomplish this by simply listing all your related surnames without giving away a single private detail.
Even if I did wish to share my family's details with the rest of the world, it would be morally incorrect (even illegal in some regions) if I did not have each member's explicit permission to do so. Yet, unless I was related to somebody famous, why would anyone 'normally' care to know when little baby 'X' was born or Uncle 'Y' filed bankruptcy or about Aunt 'Z's' botched nose job? Their personal information does not add value or interest to my family tree.
I realize many genealogists already feel as I do and are careful not to expose anything about their living relatives.
I will protect my living relatives' right to privacy.
I will not share any personal details about them without their express permission.
Perhaps you have never thought about privacy issues regarding the living relatives in your family tree or you do not consider this a valid concern. Either way, I urge you to read some of the materials others have written regarding this urgent matter. Then, if you agree your living relatives do have a right to privacy, please join me in this effort to make all genealogists aware of the dire consequences inherent in a share-all attitude.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cregan/privacy.htm
"I support my living relatives' right to privacy"
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