[Genealib] Ethics of digitizing embarrassing material +++ Question -

[treviawbeverly]

How many names are on this list?  pages of document?  Even if you go with
digitized copy, and I hope you do, could those interested receive a hard
copy via mail (I'm most willing to pay for copies & postage) or e-mail
attachment?

Trevia Wooster Beverly
Houston, Texas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandy Day" <daysa at oplin.org>
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Genealib] Ethics of digitizing embarrassing material


> Cynthia
> I realize this is a touchy subject and you have to be careful of what you
> get digitized. However, this is part of your local history-good, bad or
> indifferent. We can't judge our past history and its mistakes by leaving
it
> out of our current attempts at preserving history so I think it should be
> preserved. Whether you digitize it is another question. I would most
likely
> have it done.
> Sandy Day
> Genealogy librarian
> Schiappa Library
> Steubenville, OH
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cynthia Van Ness" <bettybarcode at yahoo.com>
> To: "genealib" <genealib at lists.acomp.usf.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 2:24 PM
> Subject: [Genealib] Ethics of digitizing embarrassing material
>
>
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > In my new job, I have a startling document--the membership list
> > of the short-lived KKK chapter in Buffalo, ca. 1924.  How we
> > booted the Klan out of town is a great story told in this book,
> > which is based in part on the author's use of this list:
> >
> > http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.cgi?path=19515850795724
> >
> > As part of fighting the Klan, the membership list was stolen and
> > published.  We have perhaps the sole surviving newsprint copy
> > ca. 1924.  So these names were already published once, though
> > not in Lay's book.
> >
> > Excerpts appear here:
> >
> > http://www.buffalonian.com/history/articles/1901-50/kkk/kkk.html
> >
> > What are the ethics of digitizing it in full and putting it
> > online?  To compare with other privacy restrictions, it is past
> > the 72-year rule of the Federal Census, which also has the
> > potential to surprise or embarrass people.  (Grandpa was
> > mulatto?  Or, Grandma lived in the red light district?)
> >
> > A 21-year old KKK member in 1924 would be 104 now.  Chances are
> > good that everyone is deceased.
> >
> >
> > *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-*
> > Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com
> > http://www.BuffaloResearch.com
> >
> > "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living.
City
> > living by its definition is crowded.  It is tolerant of other people.
It
> > is dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred
> > compromises daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy
that
> > a city generates."     --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007)
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