You did not read Bettie's reply. She said that we should not publish anything that was freely available elsewhere. We have nothing on our sites that is not freely available elsewhere. Should we just fold our tents? BTW, census data was given under penalty of law if you did not respond. That is hardly "freely given". --- Keith Giddeon <[email protected]> wrote: > Census data is information given by people > voluntarily with the > agreement that it is confidential for 72 years. This > is why census was > given an exception. > > Joy Fisher wrote: > > >Ummm -- the entire census is available at Ancestry. > >Let's remove all census records from our web sites > and > >just put a link ot Ancestry. > > > >--- Bosque Lover <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >>>Records made available by a state usually require > >>> > >>> > >>specific information > >> > >> > >>>by the requester and a fee for each record. Just > >>> > >>> > >>because a recordset is > >> > >> > >>>made available by a state does not mean we should > >>> > >>> > >>abandon ehtics and > >> > >> > >>>publish them wholly. > >>> > >>> > >>I'm not real sure why we would want to publish on > >>our web sites that which is so > >>readily available elsewhere either. > >> > >> > > > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > >http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > >==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > >Confused about Copyrights? Review USGenWeb's policy > on copyrights at: > > > http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > GAGenWeb By-Laws Committee Information Web Site: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacolqu2/bylaws/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

> You did not read Bettie's reply. She said that we > should not publish anything that was freely available > elsewhere. Actaually I said I wasn't real sure why we would want to publish what was readily available elsewhere--meaning if it didn't involve the dead. My personal cut off date for posting is 1925, but I do have a few things after that date. Bettie <>< -- The shampoo promised me extra body--I gained three pounds.