Family History
This section of the web site is dedicated to family history. This was initially a small project to map out the ancestors of the web site creator, Paul Thomas. It has however, grown to be a much larger undertaking as the number of recorded relatives have grown over time. We welcome contact from any relatives, no matter how distant to help improve the accuracy and content of the project information.
The main program used is Webtrees, an open source project developed and supported by a community of enthusiasts. It is a server application that can be made to run under any operating system with a web server, PHP and Mysql database, but is not recommended for computer novices.
In order to provide some identity protection for family members who are still living, their names and details are hidden. Any family members with a genuine interest in the details of the tree members need only to contact me by e-mail through the "Contact Us" link to obtain the relevant detail.
I welcome corrections and additions to these trees. All the data is kept in a computer which is hidden behind an industrial strength firewall so the information should be safe from hackers.
I will never use the data for any commercial enterprise and will not sell the data to anyone so please do not ask.
Paul M Thomas
2017
Genealogical Standards
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 behaviour may bring to family members.
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