José, Most countries have privacy laws that forbid you from posting that kind of information online. Article 8 of the human rights charter even grants you the right to privacy (yes, you read that right: it's a human rights issue).
In Portugal at least, you can actually post that kind of data on a database that's been approved to do so by the CNPD, as long as it's for scientifc purposes (and genealogy IS a science)... Honestly, I'm not sure if the Ancestry.com DB is authorized by the CNPD, and also, I clearly do not want any of my family data out there. My system protects the privacy of the living, or the dead until 10 years after their death. Or until the system considers that the person is 100 years old.. I've got an aunt, whose data is going to become public in 6 days, when she turns 100 :) But she's the first one in over 2000 people in my DB to reach that age in these days where that fact is checkable. João C. Ventura On Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:39:16 PM UTC+1, Jose A Medeiros wrote: > > I am on ancestry.com w/family trees for Medeiros (father) Roque (mother) > My trees are up to anyone who wants to see it > I do not want anyone touching my trees and changing anything, I have to > check settings > My trees are what they are > All family that I know, living or dead > One question, which is a pet peeve of mine when seeing other peoples trees > Why the private on the living? > > JM > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
