From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2018-09-28 15:55:41 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) said:   
      
   > In message , Doug Laidlaw   
   >  writes:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > I'm perfectly aware that living people's details are hidden, and on   
   > balance I am fine with that. The howler is that the person answering   
   > the query seemed to think there were people actually *called* "Living"   
   > in my cousin's tree - i. e. that that is their actual name.   
      
   Some people _are_ called that -- Livings, anyway. I like to know of all   
   my children's and grandchildren's ancestors (as far as possible, which   
   often isn't very far). One day when I was investigating my former   
   wife's ancestors I saw that she is descended from Richard Livings   
   (1750-1778).   
      
      
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