I got to thinking about Nancy Anglin's message and the other (which I do not have at hand) that chastized listers for "publishing" copyrighted information on the List. Just a Question, so don't go getting out the heavy armor and big guns!!! What's the difference between someone doing a lookup for you from a book they have in their personal library, looking up a fact or story from a library book at the public library, and sending it to someone to use in their personal family genealogy or history? Is there a difference between me looking the information up in a book on a bookshelf and copying the information down, and what Nancy was doing for us? Since the information comes from public records anyway, and she is not plaguerizing the published material by using it as her own, word for word, is she really violating the copyright? I personally appreciate the help she gave me because I only have one bit of a line (a marriage) in Georgia, the wife was a Georgia girl, and the menfolk were "just passing through". So I don't get around Georgia libraries very often and certainly not the B.A.S. counties.