At 09:54 AM 6/12/99 -0600, matt emerson wrote: >If M. O'Brien sorts through MA death records and comes up >with "MA Deaths of Irish Natives with Named Parents" isn't >that a creatively original selection of facts? If McWethey >comes up with a Palatine compilation from English records, >again, isn't that a creatively original selection of facts? Very probably. However, if another individual uses facts or public domain information from that book to write a paper on "MA Deaths of Family Dougherty (and all Variations) with Named Parent's," it is a different selection of the original facts. However, a compilation of ALL of the names of people with their headstone inscriptions buried in the "Cedar Bluffs Cemetery" probably would not be sufficiently original, especially of the entries are ordered in alphabetical or chronilogical order. Mike ________________ The Goad Family; Dover, AR, USA; mailto:[email protected] ; http://www.cswnet.com/~mgoad/ ; free DAR Patriot Index Lookups: http://www.cswnet.com/~mgoad/dar.html; Our on-line "bookstore:" http://www.cswnet.com/~sbooks Sponsor (Plus) of RootsWeb - To support cooperative, non-commercial, grass-roots genealogy go to http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html