unsubscribe [email protected] wrote: > Subject: > > HART-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 31 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [HART-L] Lewis Hart ["D L Austin" <[email protected]] > #2 [HART-L] Donating to lg libraries ["Mary Jo C. Martin" <[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from HART-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [HART-L] Lewis Hart > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:01:06 -0800 > From: "D L Austin" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > "The Descendants of Lewis Hart & Anne Elliott" by Jared Sidney Torrance, > published in 1923. Concerning the families of Hart-Warner; Hart- Curtiss; > Hart- McColley; Curtiss- Thompson; Curtiss- Torrance; Curtiss- Vosburgh. > Index, 361 pages > $60 postage paid in US & Canada. (WA residents add 8.1% sales tax) > Lookups available until I no longer have the book. > If you are interested in the book, please e-mail me. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [HART-L] Donating to lg libraries > Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:06:42 +1100 > From: "Mary Jo C. Martin" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Dear Rootswebbers: > > A gentleman on another list asked about donating a copy of a family history > manuscript to the Library of Congress. I replied, and thought that > cousins/fellow researchers on other lists might also benefit from my answer. > Hope this helps someone out there. I wish you all good luck. (I wish I was > ready to publish!) > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > Dear Abe, and anyone else thinking about donating copies of family research > to large libraries and research institutions: > > I used to work for the Library of Congress, and I wanted to give you some > advice about donating a copy of your in-laws' family history manuscript to > them, so as to avoid disappointment. > > As you may know, the Library of Congress is the physical and organizational > site for the US Copyright Office. Copyright requirements stipulate that the > Copyright Office receive two copies of any book that the author wishes to > register. One copy automatically goes into the Library's collections. > > As such, the Library gets copies of all sorts of different things each year. > When I left them in 1989, they had more than 8 million items in their > collections. I'm sure that number has grown exponentially since then. > > My point is that a great deal of what the Library receives is discarded, > either right away, or eventually. There just isn't enough room to store it > all! The three Library of Congress buildings that you can visit behind the > Capitol in Washington, DC are just the tip of the iceberg. They also have > warehouses in Maryland that cover acres. > > The Library will keep things that fall within their mandate -- stuff that > will advance Congressional research, or rare and valuable items. They > assume (or hope) that items of lesser value to the nation will be available > elsewhere in other libraries or research institutions. > > So give them a call before donating a precious copy of your family history. > They most probably would politely decline to keep it, and would counsel you > instead to give it to local libraries or county historical societies, where > it might be enjoyed and used by people researching in the family's locality. > > Best wishes, and please congratulate your in-laws for having put together an > account of their escape. I'm sure that it is intriguing story that will be > appreciated by many people. > > Mary Jo C. Martin > Melbourne, Australia > [email protected]