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   Doug Laidlaw to All   
   Re: Latest Ancestry howler - and more se   
   29 Sep 18 00:10:01   
   
   From: laidlaws@hotkey.net.au   
      
   On 28/09/18 23:05, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   > That isn't the howler, though. She asked for help (not by 'phone); the   
   > reply said something like "you seem to have a lot of people in your tree   
   > with the name 'living'."   
   >   
      
   What is wrong with that?  I have been in genealogy long enough to   
   remember when details of living people should be hidden!!  DNA seems to   
   have changed all that.  Like Google's philosophy, anything that they   
   don't own is not private.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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