I certainly was not trying to do anything unethical or wrong. I really didn't see any difference in transcribing these Palatine census records and the ones that are being transcribed for the US. All those records were transcribed by someone at sometime or they would not be available for people to transcribe now for the web. I understand how much work went into compiling these records, especially back in 1871 when the author was doing this, but I believed that the copyright expired due to his death and that GPC just picked up on this book and began publishing it and collecting the money for his work. If there was a copyright in effect for the author or his heirs I would not of even thought to use his book as a source of these census records, I believe that to be unethical. I am not of some mission either to set GPC straight. I just had the records, knew they were public, and thought it would be helpful to others. Carol <[email protected]> <[email protected]> - --------------------------------------------------------------