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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: JanPennington on Monday 27 May 19 11:08 BST (UK)
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I am just wanting a bit of advice.
I was asked to research the family who built a house which is now a museum. We hoped we could find out more about the couple who had emigrated from Scotland to Australia and possibly find some living relatives - they had no children but lots of siblings. Along the way I found a cousin who fought in Boer War and World War 1 and was awarded medals for bravery. I tracked his grave to the local cemetery but there is no marker of any sort.
I have become a bit attached to William. He started a grocer's shop and gave credit to striking workers to feed their families, and went bankrupt as a result. Due to disability from war wounds he lost his job at a time when there was not much financial help for he and his family.
I would like to try to get a stone/marked of some sort put on his grave. There are grants available towards such markers but I feel I should first try to contact family members. I am not sure how best to do this. I know the problems with posting trees online. I have my own tree online and get I hints that are dubious and suggested links to other trees that are to me a bit shaky.
What are the ethics of putting a tree of people not related to me online? Is it not the correct thing to post a tree for another family??
Any comments??
Jan
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You can build a tree for anyone you want to. Just apply the usual ethical standards with respect to privacy of living people.
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You can build a tree for anyone you want to. Just apply the usual ethical standards with respect to privacy of living people.
I think that puts it in a nutshell.
I host two trees on Ancestry for friends of mine who have died. Both are by way of being a memorial to them. Both are visible and searchable, so that any distant cousins would be able to find them.
Regards
Chas
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As I am trying to find living relatives as so far I haven't found any yet there is at this no chance of me breaking the standard of entering living people - but thanks for the reminder it is important.
I hadn't though about a website. I could set one up for the original couple who migrated - I need to look into that. I do have some interesting stories I could link in as attention getting items. I might discuss this with other people also involved. Thanks
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You could add this family to WikiTree. You may find him and/or his family already there.
https://www.wikitree.com/ (https://www.wikitree.com/)
Jean
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I hadn't thought about wikitree (it just comes up with some incorrect or at least dubious links for own tree). It might give a link to William though. There are some trees on Ancestry but he or his children are the last people on the branch.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Jan