Family history what to do to pass it on

[bikermickau]

My concern with Rootsweb is what will Ancestry do with the site in the future. I have my tree in there.

Several years ago I added a few obits/death notices to Rootsweb, in the Australia and New Zealand Records.
When searching for them a few weeks ago I could not locate them.

Mick

[tedscout]

I've just been listening to a lawyer on the radio who says we need to write all our on-line intellectual property into our will so we can say what we want to happen to it when we are gone. Especially if we have photos, stories and articles on the net, as they are our property and as part of our estate they need to be dealt with.

He mentioned FaceBook, Twitter and blogs, but  suppose this would include Genealogy sites too.

[Finley 1]

crikey..  'online intellectual' and facebook   

(sorry) 

xin

[tedscout]

crikey..  'online intellectual' and facebook   

(sorry) 

xin

LMAO - all my friends do on FB is play those stupid gaves like "Farmsville" and they say I'm sad coz I go hunting for dead people 

[Les de B]

LMAO - all my friends do on FB is play those stupid gaves like "Farmsville" and they say I'm sad coz I go hunting for dead people 

Oh no, that makes me stupider/sadder because I play games on FaceBook AND hunt for dead people.

  or should that be 

Les

[tedscout]

I wonder if the farm you build on Farmsville can be willed to someone else when you die? mmm food for thought!

[little alison]

I thought Facebook claimed to own everything you put on it? I'm not joining though I received an invite recently, I gather they can get into your address book - no way.

[Finley 1]

I joined FB  to be able to pop on and say hello to my daughters and grandkids, which was smashing... Occasionally being involved in a part of their lives, and seeing pics that Nans and Moms are usually excluded from..

Lately though its attraction for my daughters has dwindled... and it seems to be just the younger ones .. as you say playing games...

So I go on to see whats happening... and get... posts like ... I'm bored..... nothing exciting.. 

ah well.. Just have to go back to visiting them 

xin

[mongoose2]

My original thought was to find someone to carry on with the research but maybe adding my tree to An****try might be more of an answer especially if the ownership can be passed on as well.

It did make me think just why we all do it and why we try and bring those dry dusty bits of paper alive by wanting to add "meat to the bones" and find out just how our ancestors lived.

Still there doesnt seem to be a definitive answer to my filing cabinet final destiny.

Barry