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What to put on your family tree
website
Carole Riley
4th Annual TMG Sydney Conference9 April 2011
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Why have your data online?
� Share with others± Family
± Other researchers
±
Posterity± Allow others to find you
± Disaster plan backup
� Why not share?±
Steal your data± Misuse (add yours to theirs)
± Privacy
± Identity theft
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How much do you publish?
� Bare bones approach± BDM, year only
± Enough to identify but not giving it all away
± All the names, one date (year) to anchor
± Exclude living people
± Limited photos and documents
� Restricted access to website
� Carrot to tempt people to contact
� Once bitten twice shy!� Send a CD instead
� Ask for info before sending more
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Copyright
� www.copyright.org.au
� Fact sheets on copyright for family history and
photographs
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Which people?
� Living people names only
� Or exclude living people altogether
� Stop in the generation before everyones dead
� Just symbols for numbers and genders of
children
� Just direct ancestors (even the ones without
children!), siblings, descendants
� One branch of family
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Which pictures?
� Photos of people living or dead?� Put a watermark on the photo to deter theft
� Resolution of photo (can be a clue to who stole it)
� Ancestry now tells you who has downloaded your photos
�
Copyright ask permission if you didnt take it (not animage of an image)
� Photos taken before 1955 are out of copyright unlesscopyright has been renewed/extended
� Moral rights of photographs get a lawyer using a photo
for uses for which it was not intended� Ancestry claims any data put on their site belongs to them
watch out!
� Posterity ???
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Images of documents
� BDM certificates are copyright
� Trade certs, qualifications, degrees, may go
beyond what you would be willing to share not living people
� Parish registers
�
Read the conditions on the archives films andwebsite
� Census images from a paid site
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Which tag types?
� Depends on whether you will get a result
� Name!
� BDMU only?
� Occupations, census� Immigration/emigration
� Custom web-publishing tags (notes, links to
html pages)� Leave out the rest
± Custom research tags
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Do you include sources?
� Yes more authoritative
� No contact me
� No source may be a person
� Yes so people arent constantly asking for
your source
� No I want something in return
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Where do you put your data?
� Paid website
± GenesReunited (the Facebook of the genealogy
world!)
±Ancestry
± MyHeritage etc
� Own website
±
Second Site from TMG data
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Second Site
� http://tmg.reigelridge.com/SecondSite.htm
� People
± http://ss.johncardinal.com/secpeople.htm
± http://tmg.reigelridge.com/SecondSite-included.htm
� Exhibits
±http://ss.johncardinal.com/exhibits.htm
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