re:search before posting...telephone

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Howie Axelrod asked: "Need tel # of XXXXXX Y. ZZZZZZZ in Visalia, CA. Can
anyone assist?"

We have had many replies on this question directing us to various sites, yet the
replies left me reeling!

I really wonder if I am the only one who finds a big paradox/double standards at
play here. On the one hand, there is a discussion on whether someone should, or
should not, reveal the country and/or their town of residence or whether we
should respect their right to privacy. We are not even allowed to give a house
number on this forum. Three weeks ago, I was openly criticised, for even
quoting a JGFF researcher # [I did not even mention a name!]. A correspondent
wrote in to say it was in "bad taste" to look for this researcher in a posting.

Now to my amazement, we have a step-by-step instruction manual in a posting on
how to find the telephone # and email address of a named person [I am too
discreet to repeat the name!]. Moreover, this person probably has no idea that
this analysis is taking place and indeed they may be most displeased!

This is genealogical forum and I agree we should all share our genealogical
tricks to help reveal secrets of our ancestors but when it comes to personal
telephone numbers and addresses of living people, I feel [and I may be in the
minority!] that a private reply is the correct procedure.

I have sent step-by-step instruction manuals to the Austria-Czech SIG before,
indeed also to this Discussion Group, but they have been about how to tackle
difficult databases! Today I have found a *hidden* person in a cemetery database
and various tricks were involved and I may write about them - the date was
nearly 100 years ago. But were the result of my quest a telephone # in
California today - no way would I tell the world at large.

Now that, to me, really is *bad taste*.

Celia Male [U.K.]

MODERATOR NOTE: We don't post full addresses or telephone numbers that are less
than 72 years old. We discourage the posting of random information about
random individuals, no matter how old the information is, but encourage the
posting of information about "how to find information" about family members.
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