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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 03:31:59 EDT

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Full-name: RLugowski
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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 03:21:17 EDT
Subject: RE: Our Story - AL Book Questions
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With all due respect to the persons working on the below project:

Please Join us and contribute to
OUR STORY
Detail can be found at the link below.
Our Story:
Alabama African American Genealogy
http://www.rootsweb.com/~alaag/our_story.html

Alabama African American Genealogy
AlGenWeb-UsGenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~alaag
Alabama Slave Project
The Village
http://www.usroots.com/~villager/
Post those Surnames.
http://pluto.beseen.com/boardroom/o/48700/
Then Take a tour.
POCSOUTH (People of Color, South)
http://www.tngenweb.org/tncolor/pocsouth.htm

Dear Sir/Madam:

I have been reading with interest the request for family genealogies in AL
and have gone to the above websites, but do have questions on donating family
genealogy for this book.Three persons in my genealogy club have extensive,
documented and undocumented information on their ancestors in AL. and are
interested in donating their family research.

We would like to ask the following questions that were not quite described on
any of the above sites.

Are we to understand that we donate our research to be published in a book,
sending our info., at our cost - documentation that has taken years to
accumulate, copies that we have paid for and pay to send them via USPS or
scan and download to an address on a website??

Our Genealogy research is preferred in a text format?? (Question on the site)

I agree that this should be the selected format for a book, however I must
state, many of the notes by the persons who have taken down family history in
my group, are handwritten accounts of stories they have been told by their
ancestors, tape recordings they have made interviewing relatives or copied
from family bibles.

What is the protection on copyrights - will this book be copyrighted with our
documentation that we have submitted - if a member of our club or a
descendent publishes their own family genealogy, that has been donated to
this book, do they have to obtain permission from you/your descendents or the
publisher to publish their own material, that they have donated??

Is there a guarantee that the donated family research will not be given to a
"commercial website" such as Fanily Tree Maker that puts our donated info. on
cd's to sell to the public or to ancestry.com?.

How are you financing the publication of the book?? Pre-sales?? When do you
expect publication of the book? I'm sorry I did not see a cut-off date for
submissions to the book.

If there are proceeds from the sale of the book, where will the proceeds be
distributed???? To an AA Historical Society?? An AA museum??

With due respect to the posts on the list regarding donating AL family
research, these are questions and answers that need to be addressed before
anyone donates their family history research.

Ruth in NC










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