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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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