No, I left the htm extension alone, but edited out the comments, and then the page displays in my browsers. Dora -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Owens Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 12:31 PM To: rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Pages blank or dead I have experienced this in the past. The problem seems to be that older versions of HTML would recognize the 3 letter .htm extension, but later vers. will not. Suggest you try changing the extension to html and try it. If this is not your web site page, download the page, and then rename it by changing the extension, then reopen it. Jeff Oens Char Larson wrote: > Has anyone had a problem with dead pages on different computers? The page > in question is > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm > > This page comes up on my PC but when I use an IPad the page is blank. > Others have tried this and the same thing happens to them. > > Early Western Murray County History by Robert Forrest > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/title.htm > > There are four subtitles on the bottom > Next Page > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm > Table of Contents > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm > Index Name > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/indexa-g.htm > Home http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm > > The only one that does not work on some computers is the HOME. > > Char Larson > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnmurray/ > > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 9617 (20140331) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Dora, A browser will ignore everything after <!-- (less than, exclamation, minus, minus) until it finds a --> (minus, minus, greater than) If it never finds the closing tag it ignores everything. The page is full of html errors but it's the open comment tag that's causing the non display problem. Jim On 3/31/2014 12:11 PM, Dora Smith wrote: > Jim, how do you close a comment? /! ? I never saw the ! thing before so > I just figured those statements are more than likely what it didn't like - > and there is another one at the very top of the page. The browser will > tend to interpret any html tag as html tags even if there is never an tag > that says "html". Now, if I gave these tags properly in their brackets > they'd never appear in html e-mail. > > Dora > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Rickenbacker(3) > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 11:55 AM > To: rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Pages blank or dead > > On the home.htm page the entire body has been commented out. Remove the > following two lines: > > <!--body bgcolor="#ced0ae" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" > alink="#ff0000"> > <!body bgcolor="#fffff8" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" > alink="#ff0000"> > > Perhaps you intended to comment out the first two body tags but the open > comment was never closed. It appears the third body tag is the one you want. > > Jim Rickenbacker > > On 3/31/2014 11:15 AM, Char Larson wrote: >> Has anyone had a problem with dead pages on different computers? The page >> in question is >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm >> >> This page comes up on my PC but when I use an IPad the page is blank. >> Others have tried this and the same thing happens to them. >> >> Early Western Murray County History by Robert Forrest >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/title.htm >> >> There are four subtitles on the bottom >> Next Page >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm >> Table of Contents >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm >> Index Name >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/indexa-g.htm >> Home http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm >> >> The only one that does not work on some computers is the HOME. >> >> Char Larson >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnmurray/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus >> signature database 9617 (20140331) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Jim, how do you close a comment? /! ? I never saw the ! thing before so I just figured those statements are more than likely what it didn't like - and there is another one at the very top of the page. The browser will tend to interpret any html tag as html tags even if there is never an tag that says "html". Now, if I gave these tags properly in their brackets they'd never appear in html e-mail. Dora -----Original Message----- From: Jim Rickenbacker(3) Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 11:55 AM To: rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Pages blank or dead On the home.htm page the entire body has been commented out. Remove the following two lines: <!--body bgcolor="#ced0ae" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" alink="#ff0000"> <!body bgcolor="#fffff8" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" alink="#ff0000"> Perhaps you intended to comment out the first two body tags but the open comment was never closed. It appears the third body tag is the one you want. Jim Rickenbacker On 3/31/2014 11:15 AM, Char Larson wrote: > Has anyone had a problem with dead pages on different computers? The page > in question is > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm > > This page comes up on my PC but when I use an IPad the page is blank. > Others have tried this and the same thing happens to them. > > Early Western Murray County History by Robert Forrest > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/title.htm > > There are four subtitles on the bottom > Next Page > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm > Table of Contents > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm > Index Name > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/indexa-g.htm > Home http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm > > The only one that does not work on some computers is the HOME. > > Char Larson > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnmurray/ > > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 9617 (20140331) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Sent this 10 minutes ago and it fell into hyperspace. CCing the person who posted this time in case the gremlins are holding onto it. That page is coming up blank for me on my PC, in both Firefox and Google Chrome. Internet Explorer, too. Windows 7. Firefox and Google are current; not sure about Internet Explorer but it might be. So I examined the page source code, saved the page to my desktop, edited it in Notetab Lite (any text editor would do), removed some odd looking lines, and the page now works fine. Take out the top line, doctype, which you don't need and may be why the entire page won't work, and the two body statements that have !, and the line of &nbsp, and you're good to go. Once that's all gone the page works. Looks like your web editor is doing something odd that isn't allowed - and you've got three versions of your BODY statement, it looks like only the one with no ! is supposed to be active. Possibly it's that the browsers are no longer supporting some esoteric HTML code feature. Dora -----Original Message----- From: Char Larson Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 11:15 AM To: rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Pages blank or dead Has anyone had a problem with dead pages on different computers? The page in question is http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm This page comes up on my PC but when I use an IPad the page is blank. Others have tried this and the same thing happens to them. Early Western Murray County History by Robert Forrest http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/title.htm There are four subtitles on the bottom Next Page http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm Table of Contents http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm Index Name http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/indexa-g.htm Home http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm The only one that does not work on some computers is the HOME. Char Larson http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnmurray/ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 9617 (20140331) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

On the home.htm page the entire body has been commented out. Remove the following two lines: <!--body bgcolor="#ced0ae" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" alink="#ff0000"> <!body bgcolor="#fffff8" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" alink="#ff0000"> Perhaps you intended to comment out the first two body tags but the open comment was never closed. It appears the third body tag is the one you want. Jim Rickenbacker On 3/31/2014 11:15 AM, Char Larson wrote: > Has anyone had a problem with dead pages on different computers? The page in question is http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm > > This page comes up on my PC but when I use an IPad the page is blank. Others have tried this and the same thing happens to them. > > Early Western Murray County History by Robert Forrest > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/title.htm > > There are four subtitles on the bottom > Next Page http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm > Table of Contents http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm > Index Name http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/indexa-g.htm > Home http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm > > The only one that does not work on some computers is the HOME. > > Char Larson > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnmurray/ > > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 9617 (20140331) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

That page is coming up blank for me on my PC, in both Firefox and Google Chrome. Internet Explorer, too. Windows 7. Firefox and Google are current; not sure about Internet Explorer but it might be. So I examined the page source code, saved the page to my desktop, edited it in Notetab Lite (any text editor would do), removed some odd looking lines, and the page now works fine. Take out the top line, doctype, which you don't need and may be why the entire page won't work, and the two body statements that have !, and the line of &nbsp, and you're good to go. Once that's all gone the page works. Looks like your web editor is doing something odd that isn't allowed - and you've got three versions of your BODY statement, it looks like only the one with no ! is supposed to be active. Possibly it's that the browsers are no longer supporting some esoteric HTML code feature. Dora -----Original Message----- From: Char Larson Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 11:15 AM To: rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Pages blank or dead Has anyone had a problem with dead pages on different computers? The page in question is http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm This page comes up on my PC but when I use an IPad the page is blank. Others have tried this and the same thing happens to them. Early Western Murray County History by Robert Forrest http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/title.htm There are four subtitles on the bottom Next Page http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm Table of Contents http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm Index Name http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/indexa-g.htm Home http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm The only one that does not work on some computers is the HOME. Char Larson http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnmurray/ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 9617 (20140331) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Has anyone had a problem with dead pages on different computers? The page in question is http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm This page comes up on my PC but when I use an IPad the page is blank. Others have tried this and the same thing happens to them. Early Western Murray County History by Robert Forrest http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/title.htm There are four subtitles on the bottom Next Page http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm Table of Contents http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/cont1.htm Index Name http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/indexa-g.htm Home http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/mn/murray/history/home.htm The only one that does not work on some computers is the HOME. Char Larson http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnmurray/ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 9617 (20140331) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com

Something is strange here. Google says it's looking for http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawashin/robots.txt. That's not where robots.txt should be but Google may be doing their own thing if you created a Google search box for your site. What I'd try is just put a robots.txt file in your public_html directory and see if it solves the problem. It can't hurt anything. The file should be accessible as http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawashin/robots.txt. The content should look like this to allow crawling the entire site: User-agent: * Disallow: See http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html for more details on robots.txt Jim Rickenbacker On 2/2/2014 6:49 PM, JFlorian wrote: > If I understand correctly, the robots.txt file is on the server level-- is > that right? If correct, who do I report this to?-- Does Randy still > monitor the "freepages" list? > > > Google sent an email from Webmaster Tools for my "rootsweb" site. The > message says: > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawashin/: Googlebot can't access your > site > > Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 19 errors while attempting to > access your robots.txt. To ensure that we didn't crawl any pages listed in > that file, we postponed our crawl. Your site's overall robots.txt error > rate is 32.2%. > > It goes on to say: > If the site error rate is less than 100%: > > Using Webmaster Tools, find a day with a high error rate and examine the > logs for your web server for that day. Look for errors accessing robots.txt > in the logs for that day and fix the causes of those errors. > > The most likely explanation is that your site is overloaded. Contact your > hosting provider and discuss reconfiguring your web server or adding more > resources to your website. > > If your site redirects to another hostname, another possible explanation is > that a URL on your site is redirecting to a hostname whose serving of its > robots.txt file is exhibiting one or more of these issues. > > After you think you've fixed the problem, use Fetch as Google to fetch > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawashin/robots.txt to verify that > Googlebot can properly access your site. > > > Since I can't fix the robots.txt, how do I ask rootsweb to take a look at > it? > > > My website for The Washington County PAGenWeb: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawashin/ > > Thank you. > > Judy > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

If I understand correctly, the robots.txt file is on the server level-- is that right? If correct, who do I report this to?-- Does Randy still monitor the "freepages" list? Google sent an email from Webmaster Tools for my "rootsweb" site. The message says: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawashin/: Googlebot can't access your site Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 19 errors while attempting to access your robots.txt. To ensure that we didn't crawl any pages listed in that file, we postponed our crawl. Your site's overall robots.txt error rate is 32.2%. It goes on to say: If the site error rate is less than 100%: Using Webmaster Tools, find a day with a high error rate and examine the logs for your web server for that day. Look for errors accessing robots.txt in the logs for that day and fix the causes of those errors. The most likely explanation is that your site is overloaded. Contact your hosting provider and discuss reconfiguring your web server or adding more resources to your website. If your site redirects to another hostname, another possible explanation is that a URL on your site is redirecting to a hostname whose serving of its robots.txt file is exhibiting one or more of these issues. After you think you've fixed the problem, use Fetch as Google to fetch http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawashin/robots.txt to verify that Googlebot can properly access your site. Since I can't fix the robots.txt, how do I ask rootsweb to take a look at it? My website for The Washington County PAGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawashin/ Thank you. Judy

My http://www.rootsweb.com/~scwhite/ log-in worked, so I guess it's not necessarily that server. Susan On 1/9/2014 11:22 AM, singhals wrote: > I tried to log onto one of my accounts today and it refused > the connection with the saved password. > > I tried another account, and it worked. > > Went back to the first -- still refused. Requested and > received PW from PasswordCentral. Copy'n'pasted; refused. > Tried again, keying it in this time; refused. > > Umm, uhhh, now whut? > > non-working is a www. account, working is a GenWeb. > > Cheryl

I tried to log onto one of my accounts today and it refused the connection with the saved password. I tried another account, and it worked. Went back to the first -- still refused. Requested and received PW from PasswordCentral. Copy'n'pasted; refused. Tried again, keying it in this time; refused. Umm, uhhh, now whut? non-working is a www. account, working is a GenWeb. Cheryl

I'd suggest emailing accounts@rootsweb.com to see if the guru there can find what the hang-up is. Freddie S -----Original Message----- From: singhals Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 8:22 AM To: rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] User ID/Pw rejected :( I tried to log onto one of my accounts today and it refused the connection with the saved password. I tried another account, and it worked. Went back to the first -- still refused. Requested and received PW from PasswordCentral. Copy'n'pasted; refused. Tried again, keying it in this time; refused. Umm, uhhh, now whut? non-working is a www. account, working is a GenWeb. Cheryl ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Write to the Rootsweb Help Desk and explain the circumstances to them. On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Pat <freetobepat@embarqmail.com> wrote: > > Hi! > I am the new administrator for a rootsweb website. I have been asked to > change the password to the website. But the few instructions I received > do > not tell me how to do that. I can upload/download web pages, graphics, > etc. > But how do I change the password. I searched some of the roots web > information and found a place to recover a password, but it will send > the > password to an e-mail address and I have no idea what e-mail address is > associated with this website. I am sure the e-mail address also needs > to be > updated.So how do I change the password and the e-mail address? > If it helps any the website is: > [1]http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flcbcdar/charbay.htm > Thank you for your help. > Pat Cook > > References > > 1. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Eflcbcdar/charbay.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- -- WASHINGTON COUNTY PA WEBSITES::: http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~florian/ http://freepages.school-alumni.rootsweb.com/~florian/the-rockdoctor/ Coordinator of the Washington County PAGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawashin/

Hi! I am the new administrator for a rootsweb website. I have been asked to change the password to the website. But the few instructions I received do not tell me how to do that. I can upload/download web pages, graphics, etc. But how do I change the password. I searched some of the roots web information and found a place to recover a password, but it will send the password to an e-mail address and I have no idea what e-mail address is associated with this website. I am sure the e-mail address also needs to be updated.So how do I change the password and the e-mail address? If it helps any the website is: [1]http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flcbcdar/charbay.htm Thank you for your help. Pat Cook References 1. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Eflcbcdar/charbay.htm

Other than the page would look better centered, there is the area at the top of the document using CSS (border- radius) that is repeated at the bottom of the document. Michael On 11/1/2013 9:24 AM, singhals wrote: > Pat Asher wrote: >> At 02:29 PM 10/31/2013, singhals wrote: >>> Uhhh -- is it me or is there something not-right about the >>> ALGenWeb.org page? >> The correct URL for ALGenWeb is http://www.algw.org/ >> >> Looks fine to me. >> > Thanks, I'll try that! > > Cheryl > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Pat Asher wrote: > At 02:29 PM 10/31/2013, singhals wrote: >> Uhhh -- is it me or is there something not-right about the >> ALGenWeb.org page? > > The correct URL for ALGenWeb is http://www.algw.org/ > > Looks fine to me. > Thanks, I'll try that! Cheryl

At 02:29 PM 10/31/2013, singhals wrote: >Uhhh -- is it me or is there something not-right about the >ALGenWeb.org page? The correct URL for ALGenWeb is http://www.algw.org/ Looks fine to me. Pat A.

Uhhh -- is it me or is there something not-right about the ALGenWeb.org page? I thought we were required to have at least a list of county websites and the links. All I can see on the state page is a bunch of targeted searchs. Cheryl wvhampsh genwebbie

At 07:48 PM 10/24/2013, you wrote: >Deeds/Land Records/partitions, Wills, Orphan's Court Records...e,g. pretty >much ANY thing found in / through Court House Records are NOT copyrighted >material. They are public domain documents. > >What IS copyrighted of court documents is the presentation in a book, >published whatever...ex. newsletter. > >However, most people typing court documents tend to align text mostly the >same way it appears in a court document. For example, 2 columns for >signatures/marks, witnesses/attesting. BUT, that presentation doesn't >"belong" to anyone.... it is standard to legal documents which have no >copyright anyway. Judy, there is also compilation copyright, which may or may not apply in this instance. Which is why I suggested COPYRIGHT-L where people who are conversant with copyright law can explore the various possible ramifications of Cheryl's particular situation. Pat A.

Deeds/Land Records/partitions, Wills, Orphan's Court Records...e,g. pretty much ANY thing found in / through Court House Records are NOT copyrighted material. They are public domain documents. What IS copyrighted of court documents is the presentation in a book, published whatever...ex. newsletter. However, most people typing court documents tend to align text mostly the same way it appears in a court document. For example, 2 columns for signatures/marks, witnesses/attesting. BUT, that presentation doesn't "belong" to anyone.... it is standard to legal documents which have no copyright anyway. The biggest problem with scanning/retyping it from the "book" is knowing, "Is this accurate?" I know of one "author" who purposely misspelled one name/word in each deed /will (she told me "so I know if someone 'steals' my transcriptions.") The absolute safest way... get the actual court records. Judy