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Genealogical Standards & 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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