I can already see you rolling your eyes and shaking your head at me. Hasn't there been enough talk of ethics in genealogy out there on the Internet? Based on some of the comments I've seen lately, I'm going to have to say no. Recently I received an e-mail from a woman who was distraught to find just about everything there was to know about her, including her college alma mater on the Internet. The information was posted by her brother-in-law and although she had requested that it be removed several times, the brother-in-law was ignoring the plea.

Other recent postings on the GenForum bulletin boards allude to the vast amount of misinformation that has been contributed to GEDCOM databases. Some contributors uploading ridiculously large database of 50,000 or more individuals! I marvel that anyone could truly amass such a database especially if a researcher has only been researching a few years...

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