Thank you for your advice. I agree with Mary Ann (see her message below my signature). opying vital records from "DAR Patriots Index" [1966] are not illegal because vital records are facts. Again, thanks foir your assistance. Jean --------------- >Would it not be simpler and safer to locate a library that has the DAR >books. Make notes, or copy, the names, dates, events and places. Then post >the info in your own words. > >Mary Ann ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== Freepages, that is free web pages On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 20:46:15 EDT [email protected] writes: > As DAR members we are told that our applications and the information > on them > are property of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Now > occasionally > the DAR publishes the material as they did in these books; and > sometimes > Chapters do (but I suspect that the chapter get permission from the > National > Society to do that). While one may not be able to get a copywrite > on the > dates, someone put those dates and people together in a way to > construct a > lineage. > Ancestry states on their Web Page that either the material belongs > to them or > the original source and can be used only to construct one's own > family > research. > Virginia > > > ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== > Support RootsWeb - > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. >

Is the copyright term still for the life of the author plus 50 years? I was told recently that a copyright can be renewed. Is this true and if so, how would we know it had been renewed? Mary Ann