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 > > > > > > >