Classified Information
Swedish genealogists who post certain ancestral data on the Internet may be breaking the law—which could mean you'll have less access to information on relatives in the old country.
The Swedish Data Inspection Board (http://www.datainspektionen.se/in_english), a government entity charged with protecting individual privacy, asked the Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies
(FSGS; see http://www.genealogi.se/roots for the English version) to remove details on the race and ethnic origin of the 18th- and 19-century people in FSGS databases. The group, which is similar to the US Federation
of Genealogical Societies, has 150 member societies and 9,000 individual members. Emigrantforum, a user-contributed database launched Aug. 12, contains information on 370 Swedish emigrants. (The data's in Swedish, but the group hopes to add an English version
later this year.)
According to the Swedish news Web site The Local (http://www.thelocal.se), the Data Inspection Board's request cited the 1998 Personal Data Act, which outlaws the posting of ethnic and racial information for living
people as well as dead people whose descendants haven't given permission for the publication. FSGS is asking the board to clarify the law.
Digital Age Casualty
Ann Arbor, Mich.-based ProQuest (http://www.proquest.com), most familiar to genealogists as owner of the institutional subscription Web site HeritageQuest Online (http://www.heritagequestonline.com),
has sold its microfilm production and digitization operations to National Archive Publishing Company. ProQuest kept the rights to its newspaper and scholarly collections, as well as digital rights to periodical content, so it still can provide you with genealogical
data via HeritageQuest Online.
ProQuest's president and chief executive officer, Alan Aldworth, says the microfilm business has fallen off as more people turn to digital formats for recording information.
Kids These Days!
Having trouble figuring out the new science of genetic genealogy? Maybe you can learn something from a precocious teenager who, knowing only his sperm-donor father's birth date and place, found dear old dad using a Y-DNA database. If nothing else, the
case shows genealogy's newest craze may spell trouble to privacy-rights advocates.
New Scientist magazine (http://www.newscientist.com) reported the 15-year-old sent a swab of saliva to the genetic-genealogy company FamilyTreeDNA (http://www.familytreedna.com).
Except for the occasional genetic mutation, a man's Y-DNA is identical to his father's. The teen's dad wasn't in FamilyTreeDNA's Y-DNA database, but two men whose Y-DNA was similar to the boy's contacted him. The men didn't know each other but they had like-sounding
surnames.
From A Web site called OmniTrace (http://www.omnitrace.com), the teenage sleuth got a list of everyone born on his dad's birth date and in his hometown. He found the right surname, and later contacted the man.
On the Road
As much as I love using the Internet for genealogy, there's absolutely nothing in the world as satisfying as visiting a family homestead. I can say this with certainty, as I spent yesterday at two Moravian villages in North Carolina—both homes
for my Shore (also speclled Schor and Shor) family—and both leagues away from my San Diego digs.
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Wearing Your Relative on Your Sleeve
Sheryl Finn submitted this portrait of a woman she thinks is her great grandmother Grace wearing a piece of photographic jewelry. Finn wants to know when the picture was taken, where it was taken, and if the pin she's wearing is a family picture or
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So what's the story? Continue reading at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/
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Nov. 12
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- The Other Half of the Story: Researching Female Ancestors
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