Hi Everyone, The Mailing List is an e-mail list for group discussion of migration patterns, immigration, heraldry, historical sketches, census data, wills, family Bibles, vital records, web sites, and other genealogical research to assist you in learning more about a location or surname family, including collateral families and historical data that would benefit researchers. In general, the following topics are also welcomed to the Mailing List. Please post information on upcoming genealogical meetings, workshops, symposiums, reunions, and so forth. Reviews, criticisms, and comments for software or hardware you have used for genealogy or family history. Telling others about bookshops around the world that contain books or information about genealogy. It is held that anything a subscriber thinks is appropriate is, if it relates to genealogy. Even if you are not specifically interested in genealogy, you have a place here if you would like to share what you know that would benefit researchers or learn about history, social, economic, political, religious or other social science factors. Information of this type that is of interest to Genealogists in general (though it may not be specific) is permitted but please use discretion. We bring a lot of combined brain power to our sometimes seemingly "impossible to topple brick walls." Protecting Privacy. There are many people concerned with the posting of information online about living individuals. Protection of the living should always be uppermost in our mind. Whether we are posting a message or query, sending a family group sheet, a GEDCOM file or uploading our family history to the Internet, we should omit all living individuals. You owe it to those people. They may not share your love of genealogy. But above that, they did not give you permission to share all you know about them with the entire world. And let's face it, when you post all of that to the Internet, that is exactly what you are doing. So the next time you get ready to share information with a cousin, in print, disk or web format, stop and think for a moment. It does not matter what other types of groups have shared about your people; it should only matter what you yourself are sharing. Be one of the good guys and protect those you know who are still living by not sharing their information with the rest of the world. Even if you only give it to one person, you have given it to the world. You do not know for sure that the individual you shared with will think to protect those living individuals. So make sure it stops with you. Copyrights. Any person sending a message to this list retains the copyright to it. By sending the message, you grant to the list custodian, and his heirs and assigns forever, permission to distribute copies of the message to other list members, to store archival copies of the message, and to make the archival copies available to the Internet community at large. You also grant to other list members the right to quote your message in part or in total as a part of their replies sent back to the list. If a person has sent you a private e-mail you may not forward it to a public discussion group without the prior consent of the person who sent it. This does not prevent you from forwarding private e-mail to the listowner should you consider this appropriate. There are a number of myths about copyrights, especially as it pertains to the Internet. Additional information on the entire copyright issue and especially how it affects us on the Internet can be found at the following Internet Web sites. http://www.cswnet.com/~sbooks/genealogy/copyright/copyright.htm http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/14_cpyrt.html http://www.cyndislist.com/copyrite.htm Please do not send copies of copyrighted material or file attachments (messages with files appended) to the list. If you have a file you would like to share with the list members, announce what you have to offer, then send the file only to those list members who request the information, via private e-mail. Check with the recipient before sending large files as attachments to e-mail. Large files can mess up e-mail programs. Remember, not all people can accept attachments. I hope this information helps. If you have problems or further questions please let me know. :-)) Thanks again, Mike ************************* Michael G. McManness, a Jayhawk through and through, eating, sleeping, breathing, and bleeding Crimson and Blue near the University of Kansas. Family genealogist and research historian. "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." --- Phillip Brooks *************************