[email protected] wrote on 07 Nov 2015 in soc.genealogy.benelux: > On Friday, December 20, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Christopher Penning > wrote: >> I would like to find Y. C. Spyksma. This individual is responsible >> for compiling a list of Friesians emigrating from the Netherlands from >> 1845 to 1878. >> >> I have transferred much of this data to a database, which I would like >> to include on my web page. But of course, I first must have >> permission. Any response is appreciated. >> >> Dutch American Relations - Friesland - 1845 to 1878, Compiled by Y. C. >> Spyksma, Utjefte fan de Fryske Akademy to Ljouwert, 1965. >> >> Please reply via email. >> >> Regards, >> Christopher Penning > > Y.C. Spyksma was my grandfather. His remaining daughter is in hospice > care, so I am not sure who would be the person to give such permission. > (I will ask my cousins to see who would be the spokesperson.) I imagine > if credit is given, it would be sufficient, but I will ask. > > Grandpa loved geneology, and the dining room table was frequently > covered with his scraps of paper. I was just looking for something about > him on google, and found this. Regards, > Marcia Steensma Meabon You are responding to a posting of nearly 19 years ago, in which response by email was requested, probably because Christopher Penning was not planning to monitor this NG at that time. I would not think it to be very plausable that he would have changed his mind since then. Methinks that a compiled list that is made public is not a work of art and the data[!!] in it are NEVER subject to any form of copyright, only the way in witch it is represented might be so if the writer is alive or died les tan 70 years ago. So I don't agree with Christopher Penning's 18 year old "off course". ============== btw, in the "ARCHIEF VAN SCHEEPVAARTZAKEN UIT LONDEN, 1940-1946" there is a record of this request [translated]: 'Request by Mr Y.C.Spijksma in Passaic, NJ to nominate someone from the ranks of the "Christian Reformed Church" in America for a royal decoration.' -- Evertjan. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)