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From: "Ernest E. Blevins" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Principles of Genealogy, No. 1,234
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 19:23:57 -0500
In-Reply-To: <000501c5f79e$eb73dea0$6401a8c0@richard2kgrcz4>


Alternatively, the third will match the date but gives a new location.

Ernest E. Blevins, MFA
Blevins Historical Research
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Society of Founders & Patriots, and member of numerous other lineage
and heritage societies.


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Pence [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 7:17 PM
To:
Subject: [APG] Principles of Genealogy, No. 1,234

If you have conflicting birth dates for an ancestor and after a long and

diligent search you discover a third source for his or her birth, the
newly
discovered date will not match either of the other two.

<sigh>

Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Whitaker" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:09 PM
Subject: RE: [APG] Copy Right Advise please


> At 09:31 AM 12/2/2005, James Capobianco wrote:
> [snip]
>>With a reprint, if there is no added material, there is no value
added.
>>No creativity, and therefore, no copyright.
>
> You can copyright re-arranged material, such as new index,
> or a cemetery index if you have inserted material such as explanatory
> or descriptive notes and travel directions.
>
> I looked into this partly because I am generally interested in
> copyrights and partly because I did some research before starting
> an indexing project several years ago. (I need to get back
> to the indexing project, which will probably be sometime this
> coming summer.)
>
> I do urge anyone who is considering reprinting a work to check
> the work's status on the Copyright Office website (http://www.loc.gov,
> follow the links) as the lifetime (of the author) + 70 years rule has
> been changed. You can buy or donate a copyright: I know a
> professional genealogist who has donated copyright on some of her
> works to a genealogical society.
>
> Elizabeth Whitaker
> Graduate Student, History
> Clemson University
>
>
>
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