[Genealib] RE: Genealogies and privacy

[Sharon Centanne]

As an alternative, we could disengage our relationship with finanacial 
institutions, so that we would not have to worry about idenity theft.
Sometimes that is impossible, buit we might want to limit what 
institutions we give this information to, as we do not know how they 
will use it.
Using cash instead of credit or checks helps elimiate some of the problems
Being able to trace our families in this age of increasing family 
splintering is important, and we do not want the privacy police making 
genealogy
impossible. But we do need to be careful. Instead of posting my resume 
anymore, I put a link to an email for requesting it. But you can find
anyone on http://www.whitepages.com, so privacy is mostly an illusion 
anyway..

Sharon

Grimshaw, Kathy wrote:

>I actually had this issue with my name being included in an on-line
>family tree. I asked the person who posted my family tree to remove the
>information about living relatives and replace it with the term
>"living".
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>Maybe I'm paranoid, but I don't want my birth date, place of birth and
>mother's maiden name posted for the world to see- not because I care if
>people know how old I am, but because these are pieces of information
>commonly used as security questions by financial institutions, and in
>this age of identity theft, I would prefer to make it has hard as
>possible for someone to get my personal info.
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