Guys, I just love that you have the Henry Co Genealogical Society Books and are helping each other, but I really have to ask a favor. The Henry Co Genealogical Society has been VERY GOOD to allow us to use their books for limited lookups--you have no idea how many Genealogical Societies demand that you buy the books to see what's in them, refuse to participate in the GenWeb Project or any internet activities and openly fight attempts to share data online. The Henry County Genealogical Society has been GREAT about sharing with and helping us in our efforts but we need to bear in mind a few things when using thier materials. I need to remind all of you that these books are copyrighted to the GS and while they don't mind us doing limited lookups, I need to ask you to try and respect their generousity by doing the following: 1) If you have books you want to do lookups in, please sign up with the Henry Co GenWeb Project lookup volunteers page 2) Please DO NOT send your replies to the requests to the list--send them directly to the person asking for the info. This material is copyrighted to the Society and unfortuantely there are dishonest folks out there who would scan the lists, take the data and publish it as their own, thus depriving the Genealogical Society of much needed revenue which they use to publish more books for us. A short quote from the books like "yes your grandfather is at Dayton Cemetery born 1823 died 1899" is one thing and is quite ok, but anything over a few names and dates on an individual family, I would recommend that you private mail OR tell the person "there are 27 Johnson's buried there, perhaps you should purchase the publication" What I want to avoid is posting large chunks of a single HCGS (such as the index for example) on the list--this HURTS our society badly in that they really DO share with us, do an excellent job on their publications and, because Henry Co is not an area of large cities, etc, operate on a very small budget. We really need to respect them and even JOIN them. I know you may think "I'm in California, why would I want to join--what good would it do me".....if you haven't joined, you have NO idea what the "newsletter" is...it's no LETTER at all, but a quarterly BOOK (usually about 24 pages long) jammed full of data and research ideas, info on new publications, etc. I guess I'm on my soapbox and need to hop off it, but in parting, my suggestion is this--if you have a lot of family who were in Henry County, PLEASE consider purchasing some of the more frequently needed books such as the birth, death, and marriage indexes. I've gone back to those same books repeatedly since I purchased them and they are out of my bookshelf more than in as new names crop up. PLEASE do what you can in the above ways to support the Henry Co Genealogical Society and thank them for allowing us to freely share their data.