To all:  Self explanatory, and good advice:


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Standards For Sharing Genealogy Information With Others
Recommended by the National Genealogical Society
http://genealogy.about.com/library/blstandards-share.htm

Conscious of the fact that sharing information or data with others,  
whether through speech, documents or electronic media, is essential  
to family history research and that it needs continuing support and  
encouragement, responsible family historians consistently—

--Respect the restrictions on sharing information that arise from the  
rights of another as an author, originator or compiler; as a living  
private person; or as a party to a mutual agreement.

--Observe meticulously the legal rights of copyright owners, copying  
or distributing any part of their works only with their permission,  
or to the limited extent specifically allowed under the law's "fair  
use" exceptions.

--Identify the sources for all ideas, information and data from  
others, and the form in which they were received, recognizing that  
the unattributed use of another's intellectual work is plagiarism.

--Respect the authorship rights of senders of letters, electronic  
mail and data files, forwarding or disseminating them further only  
with the sender's permission.

--Inform people who provide information about their families as to  
the ways it may be used, observing any conditions they impose and  
respecting any reservations they may express regarding the use of  
particular items. Require some evidence of consent before assuming  
that living people are agreeable to further sharing of information  
about themselves.

--Convey personal identifying information about living people--like  
age, home address, occupation or activities--only in ways that those  
concerned have expressly agreed to.

--Recognize that legal rights of privacy may limit the extent to  
which information from publicly available sources may be further  
used, disseminated or published.

--Communicate no information to others that is known to be false, or  
without making reasonable efforts to determine its truth,  
particularly information that may be derogatory.

--[Be] sensitive to the hurt that revelations of criminal, immoral,  
bizarre or irresponsible behavior may bring to family members.
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Other entries include:

Guidelines for Publishing Web Pages on the Internet
Standards For Sound Genealogical Research
Standards For Use Of Technology In Genealogical Research
Standards for Using Records Repositories and Libraries
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