relative does not want information listed in reports

I have a relative who has found a website, where is is listed. He cites
"invasion of privacy" and demands to be removed. (to be fair, he consented
to information being retained if a login system using SSL is used, but that
cant cant be used in printed matter).

Dave Hinz...

Why in the world would anyone publish details about living generations
in the first place? If they can't find your line from the grandparents,
giving them potentially abused information won'tmake your line any
faster to find.

The program I use (as do many others) provides for global or individual
filtering of information for living people, but this causes massive loss of
data (using global filtering) or a lot of work on an individual basis.

My concern is broken lines: how do you deal with this?

p.s. what other objections have you found/heard regarding publishing family
history?

singhals...

The whole issue gets painful. On the one hand, you're publishing a
family genealogy, and two generations from now, this person's
descendants will be bent out of shape that they were "slighted" or
"ignored" by being omitted. On the other, the man doesn't want his
family put at risk, which seems reasonable enough even if we think the
risk is minimal.

After all, the interest of the average crook in buying all the
genealogies published annually must be fairly small (the cost-benefit
ratio is definitely discouraging), so the odds are that's a lot safer
than putting the same info on the web (which is close enough to free as
to make no ne'emind).

In working on the CRESAP genealogy, I had one man who wanted his family
included but unlinked. We finally compromised that I'd list them in the
book with initials only and the year of birth only; I've GOT the full
info and it's in the database, well concealed, but it'll not go public
on my watch. His concern was based on a rash of disappearing children
in his corner of the country and he did't wish to put his grands at
risk. Seemed reasonable to me.

Meanwhile, I cut the web-site's info off at Generation Four down from
the ancestor -- the last generation I can GUARANTEE has no living member.

*BUT* on this family, a large chunk (90%?) comes directly from family
members who are voluntarily sharing info. The assumption is that those
who don't share don't want to be named.

Of course, as always, I _know_ f2f most of the living people in my
databases. Abstractly arguing my right to publish the grubby details of
Cousin Itt's divorce is one issue; publishing, then seeing Cousin Itt
(and his mother!) at Thanksgiving dinner is another.

Hugh Watkins...

url please and let's have a look

Hugh W