In a message dated 5/25/2003 5:52:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, amylyn@btconline.net writes: << but good luck proving someone took it from your book. >> Ah, but there are stones in my books that are no longer there and most indexers I know put a few mistakes in there deliberately just for the purpose of proving violation. I know I was advised to way back in the 1970s You know, it took me 10 years to go from cemetery to cemetery while raising 5 kids to copy over 42,000 tombstones and to index the censuses I did. It cost money to print the books and over ten years to sell the copies to get the money back. Over the years, I have shared freely and nice people and church groups have asked permission to reprint parts and permission has been granted. I have never seen a group so obsessed with getting around someone's rights.. I will just tell you that in history and genealogy the enjoyment comes from 1/ finding that elusive piece of the puzzle 2/ all the people that you meet on the way lovely or otherwise 3/ the joy of a job you are interested in done to the best of your ability Don't you think the people who matter know 1/ whether you know your subject 2/ whether you are doing your job 3/ whether you are being honest or dishonest If you know, they know and boy do they laugh at the frauds behind their backs. One of these days, I will be going where so many of the history people I have known have gone before. What do I want to leave behind me? I want to leave people who say she will be missed and then maybe I can listen as they tell stories about how I helped them, or something fun we did together or some silly mistake I made. On my trips this past week, I came up with an entirely new concept of how I want to spend the rest of my life and sitting tied to my computer is not high on the list. Donna Parrish