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Genealogical Standards and Guidelines
Standards For Sharing
Information With Others
Recommended by the
National Genealogical Society
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.
Are
sensitive to the hurt that revelations of criminal, immoral, bizarre or
irresponsible behavior
may
bring to family members.
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