In a message dated 3/9/2006 4:39:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, mrmayor@hotmail.com writes: HeritageQuest does not hold the copyright. The works are in the public domain and free to use as you see fit. They may 'own' the images of the book on their website. I am in the middle of scanning some books from various libraries for my own personal digital library. Eventually I am hoping to have an online library of books, modeled after Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org. Aaron Hill Aaron- They do have a compilation copyright to their database but copyright isn't the issue here...it is a matter of a LICENSING agreement. If you can find the public domain info elsewhere -- in a place where you have not agreed to a licensing agreement, then fine, feel free to use it--but copying directly from a database where you have agreed NOT to do so--could get you in trouble. While they would most likely not bother someone who does a couple small lookups privately, I can remember FamilyTreeMaker cracking down on at least one wholesale copier of data quite a few years ago (someone copying entire sections of a World Family Tree CD). Joan