Beginning September 9, Ms Louise T. Overton provided the Rockingham County List with a ten part series she entitled "Mill Sites in Simpsonville Township." I contacted Mr. Bob Carter who had written an article under a similar title in the April and October Issues of The Journal of Rockingham County History and Genealogy and he recognized right away that it was that part of his original article that concerned Troublesome Iron Works. He was very upset about this unauthorized use of his article and his research particularly because those Journal Issues are still available and for sale by the Rockingham County Historical Society. As a Director of the Historical Society and a subscriber to the Rockingham Rootsweb List, I am likewise conceerned. Without question, Ms.Overton has done a service to subscribers of the Rockingham County List but I think we have got to honor copyright laws and respect authors and their original research. Also, we cannot undercut publications of the Society, DAR Chapters, or Genealogical Societies by reprinting material they have published and still have for sale. Quoting from such sources or doing look-ups as a service is certainly acceptable but I think anyone who has spent hours on research and writing can appreciate the concern voiced here, if they saw their work used in the way this material was. I don't want to take issue with Ms. Overton's good intentions. I also would hate to see the wonderful potential of the Rockingham County Rootsweb List, to make an unlimited new resource for historians and genealogists, become a source of controversy by the unauthorized appropriation of other person's original research.