[or-roots] Posted without permission

[D. J. Brotherton]

My goal for doing  the family trees is putting togethe rinformation  for my children and grandchildren.  I wish my parents had done that.  Last Christmas I gave a CD of all my family photos along with a book on what I knew about the family todate.  However, I am afraid to give my whole database to someone as they might publish or use the living information.  The security issue today of someone stealing your identity is somewhat daunting.   Has anyone an idea on what else to do.

Dolores - 
My Oregon Pioneers - Goodell, St. John, Grant, McDonald, Rhoades, Tinker, Pugh, Huddleston, Jones  mostly in the Willamette Vallen - Champoeg,, Linn and Lincoln counties, Salem, Silverton, Mill City,  etc. 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: DAVIESW739 at aol.com 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 8:32 AM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Posted without permission


  A lot of people will spend their whole life collecting and putting together their family tree and won't share it with a living sole because they think its all their hard work and no one else should have any of it. "Just let them go get their own and leave me alone" I wonder about these people because I think they awfully selfish and self centered to be this way. Thank God my family is not that way we share everything that we find and by doing so we have one of the largest family trees around. after all its not just your family its the family of every person in your family tree and they also have the right to the information that you have collected. Remember you didn't invent it you collected it from others who put it on paper for you. Wouldn't it be fun if the numerators of the census decided that what they went out an collected was theirs and they made the government buy it from them. If you want to write a family book about your family and make it into a novel like my Aunt Charlotte did then this is your work and you can do as you wish with it. Keep it hid away sell it or just donate it to the family your choice. But when you collect data from all over the country from public sources then that still belongs to all of your family just because you put it all together doesn't make it yours forever on until death do you part. My sister in law Nancy has collected data on my Davies side and to this date has not let any of us have any of it she guarded it right up to her death this summer. Well, now what will brother burn it all up or throw it the trash or finely let us see what she has collected, who knows. At any rate its wasn't her family it was ours and her kids and even they don't have copies of it. What a waste of time to do all that no not share even one little bit with the family. As I said before thank God that the rest of my family is not like her. 
  Well, that my opinion an its worth just about that much so lets just drop it.   

  Walt Davies
  Cooper Hollow Farm
  Monmouth, OR 97361
  503 623-0460 
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