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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [ADVANRES] Why Rank or Post Sources?
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 17:06:56 -0500
In-Reply-To: <001901c553df$df3df840$68aae842@DFHK9921>


Yup, that's why I don't send it to them. Nor do I use their services. <G>

Teresa Ghee Elliott
Rutherford Co., TN cemeteries:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/
TMG sentences:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG.html
Generations Gone Bye: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-TEAncestors


-----Original Message-----
From: Karen [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 10:09 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] Why Rank or Post Sources?

Maybe I'm just crabby, but does it bother anyone else that several online
services ask that you DONATE your research & trees and then they CHARGE
others to receive your information and even charge YOU for information that
was donated to them?


----- Original Message -----
From: "V Billings" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] Why Rank or Post Sources?


> Sharyn: you are so correct. If it's public record, anyone can partake of
the information. However I don't have to make it easy for them to do so.
If I've taken the time, spent the money to order records, then another
person can do the same. You yourself have provided an excellent
point....the information you provided to someone was passed on and now
appears on the cd as fact. How sad. I am more than happy to share or trade
info to a family member regardless of how distant they are. There is a man
who is also part of one of my families. He was more than generous to share
what he had gotten. I also shared with him what I had. We lost touch when
we disagreed with the birth place of a common ancestor. He chooses to go
with the crowd's opinion...I choose not to until I've proven the fact.
>
> Vicki
>
> Sharyn Hay <> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nancy Burfield"
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 10:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] Why Rank or Post Sources?
>
>
> > This topic has been of great interest to me. I am vacillating with the
pros
> > and cons of publishing a web site. I don't know what I am going to do.
But
> > let me tell you of an experience I had a couple of years ago.
> >
> > I had connected with an unknown distant cousin via the web and we agreed
to
> > exchange information. I was startled when she sent me a file that
included
> > information about my immediate family! I realized that she had gotten
the
> > information from another distant relative which I had sent my file to. I
> > have been leery to share info ever since. Once you give it away it is
out
> > of your control, be it on a web site or a private E Mail. Copy write
laws
> > are impossible to enforce on the internet in my opinion. What can we do
> > about this problem?
> >
>
> Just to clarify a common misconception - There is NO copyright on vital
data such as
> birth, marriage, death or census records. These are considered "public
records" (even
> if access is sometimes restricted to immediate family) kept by governments
or churches.
> ANYONE, at ANY TIME can publish information found in any public record,
which
> can include telephone books, city directories with addresses, etc. If your
family
> member took time to look up the information you sent and verify it with
public
> documents, it is as much hers as yours. It was never in your control to
begin with.
> The only thing you can copyright is the format of presentation and any
narrative notes.
>
> I'm not thrilled that my cousin sent my data to the IGI (LDS) and included
my
> mistakes, which are now on one of their Pedigree Resource File CDs.
However, I
> don't "own" the data so I can't really complain. It would have been nice
if she had
> done the lookups herself and verified the data (thus catching my
mistakes), but she
> didn't. That's just the reality of the genealogy world.
>
> Regards,
> Sharyn
>
>
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