Personally I hate Facebook even though I have an account. One of my cousins wants me to post everything genealogical there including photos to find more living relatives. I'm actually opposed to doing so because I didn't spend the last twelve or so years researching to give everything away to genealogy thieves who like to take data without first verifying if they have a connection.
The plus side to it is to have other family members post their own personal photos, like recent photos, to add to your Legacy data. I do this with the cousin mentioned above because she's a photo journalist and writer and posts anything and everything to her FB page. That's how I got a hold of her daughter's wedding photos. She also posted, as did I, photos of her mother's funeral and memorial service. Hers were better than mine. My FB page is private and only available to those that I allow in. This keeps out the thieves and nosey people. These days you have to be careful. Your future or potential employer might be snooping around your pages. FB used to have a place where you could upload a GEDCOM, but it broke about a year ago and never came back. This would have been useful for posting information for relatives. About that same time there was some debate over FB's ownership of the photos posted to your site so I decided I wasn't going to post older photos if there was an ownership clause going on. I think that idea was scratched. I do intend to publish my information eventually so I want to control the rights to my work and not give it away to everyone on the internet who might have a profit motive. That's my two cents. I'd be interested in a guidebook on genealogical ethics. I remember seeing something along these lines years ago related to the lack thereof in the "olden days" where people were connecting their lines to notable families. This was a huge LDS scandal years ago which is why I don't put a lot of faith into what they offer because there still could be some bad data lurking. I've found a number of errors in data I downloaded from them years ago. Bill Boswell From: Tom Thorpe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Facebook & Images Wondering what others think of using Facebook photos and information (e.g. birthdate, other family member names and FB links) that are accessible to everyone in my genealogical software (Legacy). I have several extended family members and their children who are on FB and have posted photos for all to see, friends and non-friends alike. I do not intend to publish the material but had hoped to include it all in a book of descendants to be handed out at the next family reunion. Thanks for your thoughts. Tom P.S. Anyone know of a good source guide for genealogical ethics? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
