At 04:09 PM 8/31/2007, you wrote: >I openly invite people to take what they want from my web site. It is >there to help people with their research. However, as has happened >many times in the past, professional researchers take information from >my site and charge their clients a lot of money for it, then that >annoys me but I don't think there is anything that I can do about it. Some people hire someone to clean their house, or do their yard work -- because they don't want to do it themselves. Would you object to the people who actually did do the work being paid? Of course not. Some people are just not into "do it yourself" genealogy research. They would prefer to pay someone else to do the research and just provide them the finished report. The people who do the research are providing a service and IMO should certainly be paid for the service they provide. Pat

Bravo, Pat. AS one of those 'paid' reseachers I can heartily agree with you. It's not like we're ripping people off. My clients are tickled pink to get data from the bowels of our courthouse - archives that they couldn't otherwise get to.....AND there are the occasional clients who wish full research but not very often. If people are thinking that every bit of historical data is available on web sites they are most definately wrong. There is ton's of data available that is nowhere near a web site. Our county has sites from all three major networks and we still have loads of data that is unavailable to the internet researcher. Joyce Gaston Reece ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Asher" <pasher@ee.net> To: <copyright@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [COPYRIGHT] Ancestry and Web pages > At 04:09 PM 8/31/2007, you wrote: >>I openly invite people to take what they want from my web site. It is >>there to help people with their research. However, as has happened >>many times in the past, professional researchers take information from >>my site and charge their clients a lot of money for it, then that >>annoys me but I don't think there is anything that I can do about it. > > Some people hire someone to clean their house, or do their yard work > -- because they don't want to do it themselves. Would you object to > the people who actually did do the work being paid? Of course not. > > Some people are just not into "do it yourself" genealogy > research. They would prefer to pay someone else to do the research > and just provide them the finished report. The people who do the > research are providing a service and IMO should certainly be paid for > the service they provide. > > Pat > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COPYRIGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.13.1/981 - Release Date: 8/31/2007 > 6:13 AM > >

Yes I agree with you 100% Pat that people who do professional research should be paid for their work. Trouble is, the unscrupulous researchers that I am referring to charged their clients for travel expenses as well as many hours of searching microfilms at LDS family history centres. This was the 10 years of work that I did and made available for free. They just sat at home and took the information from my web site for free without moving out of their house. To me that is fraud against their clients. Jean McCarthy nee Moore On 31/08/2007, Pat Asher <pasher@ee.net> wrote: > At 04:09 PM 8/31/2007, you wrote: > >I openly invite people to take what they want from my web site. It is > >there to help people with their research. However, as has happened > >many times in the past, professional researchers take information from > >my site and charge their clients a lot of money for it, then that > >annoys me but I don't think there is anything that I can do about it. > > Some people hire someone to clean their house, or do their yard work > -- because they don't want to do it themselves. Would you object to > the people who actually did do the work being paid? Of course not. > > Some people are just not into "do it yourself" genealogy > research. They would prefer to pay someone else to do the research > and just provide them the finished report. The people who do the > research are providing a service and IMO should certainly be paid for > the service they provide. > > Pat > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COPYRIGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanmccarthy36/ jeanmccarthy36@googlemail.com

A) How do you know that > the unscrupulous > researchers that I am referring to charged their clients for travel > expenses as well as many hours of searching microfilms at LDS family > history centres. I would guess that you don't know that, but think that might have been done. There is a difference. B) If you didn't want the information used why did you place it on the net? Bill On Aug 31, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Jean McCarthy wrote: > Yes I agree with you 100% Pat that people who do professional > research should be paid for their work. Trouble is, the unscrupulous > researchers that I am referring to charged their clients for travel > expenses as well as many hours of searching microfilms at LDS family > history centres. This was the 10 years of work that I did and made > available for free. They just sat at home and took the information > from my web site for free without moving out of their house. To me > that is fraud against their clients. > > Jean McCarthy nee Moore > > > On 31/08/2007, Pat Asher <pasher@ee.net> wrote: >> At 04:09 PM 8/31/2007, you wrote: >>> I openly invite people to take what they want from my web site. >>> It is >>> there to help people with their research. However, as has happened >>> many times in the past, professional researchers take information >>> from >>> my site and charge their clients a lot of money for it, then that >>> annoys me but I don't think there is anything that I can do about >>> it. >> >> Some people hire someone to clean their house, or do their yard work >> -- because they don't want to do it themselves. Would you object to >> the people who actually did do the work being paid? Of course not. >> >> Some people are just not into "do it yourself" genealogy >> research. They would prefer to pay someone else to do the research >> and just provide them the finished report. The people who do the >> research are providing a service and IMO should certainly be paid for >> the service they provide. >> >> Pat >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COPYRIGHT- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > -- > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanmccarthy36/ > > jeanmccarthy36@googlemail.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COPYRIGHT- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message