JEFFREY A TREON wrote: > > Hi. I found a cemetery link with a bunch of MCBEE'S listed. It is copyrighted > so I will just tell you the address: > > Still haven't figured how a cemetery can be copyrighted, that's a real shaky > touchy area there. If my folks were buried there and I wanted to tell everyone > who else was there, I wouldn't see how that could be copyrighted. > > Anyway, this is for ST.LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CEMETERY in LINCOLNTON,LINCOLN CO,NC > and was done by a W.D.FLOYD who has it posted on the net at the following > address: > > http://www.rfci.net/wdfloyd/StLukes.html > > There are approx. 15 MCBEE'S buried there and seem to be intermarried with > the SUMNERS. I don't live too far from Lincolnton, but was looking for my > MACABOY/MCVOY ancestor and saw them. > > Bonnie Bonnie, thanks for posting this link. W.D. Floyd can copyright her or his publication of the cemetery information, but not the information itself. So if any of you go out to cemeteries and transcribe gravestones, that will NOT be infringing on anyone's copyright. My own local genealogical society (South King County GS) surveys local cemeteries, matches the data with obituaries and death records, and then publishes and sells the books. Their service to the genealogical community is enormous, and no one should try to take their profit from them! Still, if anyone wishes to walk a cemetery and publish their work on the web, they have copyright to that work. I think we owe W.D. Floyd thanks for her or his labor and generosity. If any of you do any sort of similar work and publish it, YOU will own the copyright on that work. This includes your posts to this mail list! For more on copyright issues, check out <http://www.rootsweb.com/~bwo/bwocwp.html#rule> (what you expect) <http://moyra.com/jewels/html/eleventh.html> (quite a surprise!) All the best to all my relations, Valorie, IBSSG, Listmom <mailto:[email protected]>