Welcome to Kyle Scott MacLea who has joined this week. ****** ****** ****** Thanks to Sarah for keeping the ball rolling on this month's topic: "Books & other written material you have found of use, enjoyable to read, that have given you an insight into village/family/working life within the communities your ancestors lived - or Genealogy books that you have found helpful to your research." Sarah's closing comments re look-up's lead me neatly into the next item ... ****** ****** ****** A reminder that copyright issues must be considered before posting internet sourced data to this list. One website we have all used from time to time is the one run by the GRO for Scotland - here are the copyright 'rules' from their website ... ------------------------------------------------- Copyright. General Register Office for Scotland indexes and digital images are Crown copyright and are reproduced with the permission of the Queen's Printer for Scotland. Permitted Use. Visitors to this website are granted permission to access this material, to download and copy such material on to electronic, magnetic, optical or similar storage media, and to make printed copies of any such downloaded material, provided that such activities and copies are for private research or study only. Restricted Use. Visitors to this website may not copy, distribute, sell or publish any of the Crown copyright material downloaded or copied from this website. Any other use of the material requires the formal permission of the Queen's Printer for Scotland. For the avoidance of doubt, no other permission is given for the transfer of any of this material to an open Internet site. ------------------------------------------------- Some may be asking "How does all this apply to a subscriber only mailing list?" It is because all posts to this list are archived, and thus become freely available to anyone searching the list archives. I.E. Your data posted to the list has effectively been placed on "an open Internet site". Therefore, please DO NOT send full details of copyrighted documents to the list. If one wishes to allow others to have access to the extra data that is of no use to their "private research or study", but may be of use to others for their "private research or study", this may be done via a posting which is limited to the source reference details, plus an informative but limited extract of the data. This extract could include event type, a surname (or list of surnames) with a date (or a date range), but nothing more. If others have an interest in the data, then they can either go to the website themselves [preferred method], or request details from the person who posted the extract. In this second case, details should only be provided if satisfying the request doesn't contravene the copyright. If one does provide the data, irrespective of whether the request was on or off list, the reply should always be off list, thus keeping the data off "an open Internet site". Requests for blanket information are, in my opinion, the type of request that would contravene the copyright rules. Such requests should be returned with the just the access details for the website. ****** ****** ****** Feel free to join in and present your own items. Peter Cook <cookfmly@bigpond.com> List maintainer and Co-host with Barbara <babrown12@comcast.net > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list.