Policies
Privacy
In general, only the names of living individuals, or individuals presumed living, should be posted. Information for persons known or presumed deceased may be posted at the contributor's discretion so long as the Copyright Policy is followed.
It is this website's policy that in the United States one can presume that a person is living if they might be expected to appear in the 1930 census (which is publically available) and would be less than 100 years of age at the time of the posting. This presumption can only be superseded by positive evidence of a person's death (obituary, death certificate, etc.). Note that existence of a gravestone is not evidence of death unless a date of death has been inscribed since some families purchase gravestones at the death of one partner and have them pre-inscribed with the name and birth year of the other partner in order to save time and expense when the second partner dies.
Copyright
Copyright for the wiki portion of the website is stated there (http://www.vandeventer.net/~vandeven/wiki/index.php?title=Copyright_Policy).
Copyright for the Traditional portion of the website (everything but the wiki) is retained by Sarah A. V. Kirby.
last page update: 1 Nov 2006 |
