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    1. Re: [COPYRIGHT] Private e-mails update - VICTORY!
    2. About 25 years ago, I send quite a bit of information to a young man who was researching the same family that I was. Some of it was "facts" easily obtainable by anybody who did the work. Some of it was family knowledge. It was sent thinking I was working with someone who was genuinely doing research. Some of it probably could be considered copyrightable material. He sent me a copy of what he put together. Lo and behold, he or the computer (this was a new computer age) had melded together his two wives into one and another couple who had the same names, resulting in a family with 22 or so children. At the point I pointed out to him the errors and forgot all about it. Years later, the LDS site is up and low and behold there is all this garbage and it is credited to me! I still hear from people who find that mess, and have tried to trace their family to it. And want me to explain it! Such is life. Virginia Green

    07/22/2006 02:29:55