Question/answer » Can I publish data from living persons on Genealogy Online?
Data from living persons can only be published (Internet / magazine / book) if the persons in question have given their explicit permission to the author. This is not a rule of Genealogy Online, but the General Data Protection Regulation Act (GDPR).
If you have permission to publish data from living persons, you can set this via the administration page. After logging in, choose Genealogy Online, Publication (s) and then the publication you want to edit. You now see a series of actions, including View / edit public access to persons (privacy) . You will first receive an explanation and then a list of names of people whose data have not been published. Find the person who may be "made public" and click on the name. A confirmation question will now follow (are you sure?) If you press OK, the permission will be recorded.
After you have made one or more people public, you must update the publication, this can easily be done via the Update publication button.
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.