Christine, Something else to address.... How come you recommended "ALHN, USIGS, Afrigenas, GeneaSearch" but not mentioning the USGenWeb Census Project which has hundreds of FULL census information??? Christine Charity wrote: > > I have been asked to remove a link from a website that I operate, > Censuslinks.com. Initially the site owner accused me of stealing the > material and violating her copyright by placing a link on it from my site to > theirs. When I pointed out that no material was published at Censuslinks, > only links, the site owner responded with the following reasons for wanting > me to remove the link: > > 1. "Your site seems to duplicate the efforts of other indexes and search > engines." > 2. "The problem with linking to pages at random without first making a > courteous request of the page owner is that pages are edited and updated and > the links may no longer work. I really don't have time to notify multiple > sites when changes are made on our web site. " > > When I responded that I never asked to be notified of changes made to any > website that I have linked to, and asked if they were asking everyone who > had "linked without their permission to remove the links" I received the > following responses: > > 1. "One reason our Genealogical Society is concerned about the tax lists on > line is that the (name removed by me) is in the process of publishing the > tax lists from 1847-1859 that I edited and prepared for publication. These > books will be for sale and if they aren't already out, soon will be. There > is a possibility that we may need to remove these tax lists at least > temporarily. While our local Genealogical Society has been VERY cooperative > with our website and are in fact, quite proud of it, they are justifiably > concerned about any loss of sales with anything we put on the net. Loss of > sales must be protected." > 2. "The Archive Coordinators did ask for permission before putting our > cemetery links in the Archives. They have permission to have what they have > in the archives. We did not grant anyone else that permission." > > My concern is not over losing the link, it is only one link out of 4,900 -- > my concern is that my site is being singled out, that other sites that have > links to this site, including Census-Online, On Line Census, Cyndi's List > and Interment.net, are not being asked to remove their links. I have > repeatedly asked this site owner why Censuslinks is being singled out and > they have refused to answer the question. What would you do? > > Christine Charity > > Christine's Genealogy Website > http://ccharity.com > > The Freedmen's Bureau Online > http://freedmensbureau.com > > Censuslinks on the Internet > http://censuslinks.com > > ============================== > FREE UNLIMITED Web space at RootsWeb! > Any subject: genealogy, computers, pets! Get your Freepages account today: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi