No probs with your comment. I understand the privacy issues completely, my comment actually said" ancient family history", just if we are all searching for the same info, why would a contributor ask for help with info and then not be kind enough to share what they have for the benefit of all
Cheers
Ally
Actually you wrote "almost ancient family history"
Did you look at the contents of the Coroner's Report, or just at the Image of the Index of the Reports?
One of the reasons people ask for help is to learn further about their ancestors. One of the reasons it is not then shared for everyone to read is simply that there are many evil persons around who if they were seeking to CON elderly neighbours out of say some cash money, they could easily obtain the names of the neighbours deceased parents or deceased cousins etc by using family history information gleaned from the web. Another reason could well be simply that there are copyright issues if sharing documents. The information in the documents may be shared, but the documents or images of those documents may be subject to copyright. Another reason could be that if uploading a family tree to a commercial website, then they may be uploading both their paternal and maternal lines. It seems logical to me that it could then be that lazy researchers could then copy both those lines and insert both into their own tree. Thus linking into their own tree many people who are in no way connected to their own family tree.
I am sure there are many other reasons for not uploading research to the web. I share my own family history research with persons whom I have found to be in my own tree and who have expressed an interest in sharing in return. I do not upload my tree to the web. I tend to enjoy doing my own research, and helping others with their research, by giving them index references or transcribing from my NSW offline reference books.
Also, I tend to think of records as being of two main types. Primary records (for example, birth certificates with the parents and siblings details for the person whose birth is being registered, (marriage, death certs too); official archived records held in recognised Archives eg NSW State Records Office holdings for land grants etc with applicant's details in the applicant's own hand; to Secondary records .... eg newspaper cuttings, or INDEXES eg the NSW BDM online INDEX .... or the Index for the Coroner's Reports....
I have living relatives who were born before and during WWI. They are very much alive and alert and are very insistent on making sure that their names and other identifying details are not uploaded to any family history website. This is because they wish to protect their descendants from Identity theft or other privacy invasions. Yes, their names and addresses are on the Electoral Rolls that Ancestry has made available online, so too am I on those rolls. Some of my "almost ancient" living relatives have resided at their current address since their births. They would of course be offended if I said to any of them "Hello you almost ancient relatives".... They much prefer me to phone and say "Well you can hear that I haven't kicked the bucket, and as you have answered your phone, I can hear that you haven't yet either"...
Cheers, JM
