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From: "k.mackay2" <>
Subject: Re: Gedcom files
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 00:05:37 -0000
References: <127.1d6098e5.2b320722@aol.com> <00aa01c2a6dd$8191e280$11c932d2@i0l4o7>


Diane I have spent the last 10 years undertaking Family History and am
pleased and very grateful to all the family I have "contacted" and friends I
have made but I was horrified to find that a "distant" cousin in America had
without my consent has published information about my living relatives on
the internet. In addition that information was not correct and involved
other members of my family who had trusted me with information on their
family. Bob is right it is not about sharing information but thinking about
the information you have obtained and how it should or should not be used.

Cheers

Kay
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Cunning <>
To: <>
Sent: 18 December 2002 21:36
Subject: Re: Gedcom files


> You are missing the point. Subscribers are annoyed at the wrongful use of
> information and not about sharing the knowledge. Mailing lists are not for
> lazy people to be spoon fed, they are designed to help people find like
> interests, or to help subscribers AFTER the subscriber has done all that
> he/she can and is still stuck on something.
>
> Cheers Bob in Australia
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:15 AM
> Subject: Gedcom files
>
>
> > What is this problem with sharing Gedcom files, I thought that the point
> of
> > Genealogy was to share information with other people? Even if you have
> done
> > all the hard work yourself.
> >
> > Wouldn't you feel pleased with yourself if you gave someone all your
> > information, so that they didn't have to do the work themselves. If
not,
> WHY
> > DO WE HAVE MAILING LISTS for.
> >
> > From
> >
> > Diane Sowden
> >
>
>


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