What information is removed?
Before placing data on our website, JewishGen utilizes specially designed software enabling the removal of all date and place information about living persons — with “living” being defined as someone born within the past 100 years, and for whom there is no death information indicated. However, there is one minor problem. If you supply a date of birth without specifying a year, the “100 year rule” software will not remove the dates/places fror that individual. For example, if a birth date was input as ‘8 Sept’ rather than ‘8 Sept 1950’, the software does not delete the information as per the “100 year rule” — since it doesn’t know from which year to work. If this is a problem for you, you might wish to create a copy of your family tree, take these dates out, and send us the copy, rather than the original tree. We also remove all other GEDCOM data fields, leaving only name, and dates/places of birth, marriage and death. Other GEDCOM data fields such as immigration, occupation, religion
