Moral Dilemmas
“Restore My Name:” The First Edition of the Carnival of African-American Genealogy
Luckie Daniels, proprietor of Our Georgia Roots, a tenacious researcher and tech expert, has taken on the hosting of the first edition of the Carnival of African-American Genealogy. The theme for the first edition concerns slave research. Participants are asked to answer one or more of the following questions: What responsibilities are involved on the part of the researcher when …
March 18, 2010 Thursday at 10:54 am
What do I Do Now? Moral Dilemmas in Genealogy
[Posted from Kansas City, Missouri] I was doing a fairly simple chart for a particular family when I came across a public record of a somewhat recent birth that the family had not mentioned. There was no reason not to have mentioned it except to keep it secret. What to do? Should I put it on the chart and say …
July 30, 2007 Monday at 2:36 am




