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From: "Susan Card Voyles" <>
Subject: Re: [ILMacoupin] Stole my data
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 07:38:17 -0500
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I agree with the majority. I have been reaching my ancestral lines for over
25 years. I have shared with many people over the years. Till this one
person ask for my information, put it in a book, did not give me credit for
anything and sold it for $30.00. He would go on message boards and sell
this book, well I would go on that same message board and offer the same
information for free. Eventually he stopped doing that. There is personal
information on me on a website and it is wrong information as well. Being a
veteran genealogist, if I do not know the person, I will tell them where the
information is, for example: on census records, I will tell them what roll,
page and line number. I remember the excitement when I found who I was
looking for.

By the way, I have to tell you if you have not been to Macoupin County for a
visit - make plans to. My husband's ancestors (Voyles, Sandner, Boyd,
Smith, Jubelt and Kessler) are from the Mt. Olive area, and when I go up
there you are literally walking back in time. I am called to that place. Of
all the places I have traveled doing research, Mt. Olive is the place I want
to go to more often. The Mt. Olive Library has so much to offer. If you go
into the outer room there you will see a portrait of E.W. Smith. This man
was one of the 5 killed in the Virden Riot and is laid to rest next to
Mother Jones.

Susan


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Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:25 PM
Subject: RE: [ILMacoupin] Stole my data


> I agree with Gloria's position on this subject and strongly disagree with
> Harvey in his premise that the "whole purpose of our work is to share with
> others". Yes, we will share, but don't steal it and post as your own
work.
>
> This has happened to me and because I have found my work and conclusions
> verbatum on another's website. It was also submitted it to Ancestry.com
via
> FTM (by the same person) and there is my search results with her name
> plastered on it as if she had eeked out the information from some very
> obscure sources. I am happy to say this person is not of one of my
Macoupin
> county families.
>
> I now put a copyright notice on everything I send out--not that the notice
> will do much to stop someone who is eager to "steal" and claim another's
> research as their own.
>
> As for Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com, etc. out of a matter of priniciple (my
> own) I refuse to pay for access to "their" sources.
>
> I am not "flattered" by someone who would copy my information and use it
as
> their own.
>
> Linda
>
>
>
>
>
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