>I was not aware that any Rootsweb site was under obligation to the >Genealogy Society any where. I don't think it's obligation. To me, it's respect. The mailing list is sponsored by Rootsweb, but the web site is on geocities and is a SCGenWeb site. Although many people think Rootsweb and the USGenWeb Project are the same, they are not. Rootsweb and the USGenWeb Project/SCGenWeb both have policies about violation of copyright laws. In fact, their regulations say I have to have a permission slip signed for anything published after 1927. >You do not have enough general information on your site. The census >is >public information and certainly should be made available to same. I work full-time and go to college part-time. I volunteered to take the Colleton web page in 1997 because no one else had volunteered to create one. Jane >From: "Greg & Winn" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [SCCOLLET] Free Genealogy >Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:04:28 -0500 > >Hello List, > >I personally think all information regarding a family search should be free >of charge. I do look ups and have registered cemeteries for my local >Rootsweb Site. I am glad to do this in hopes some one in Colleton County >or elsewhere will do the same for me. > >I feel so much anger because I can not go over there and research. You do >not have enough general information on your site. The census is public >information and certainly should be made available to same. > >I was not aware that any Rootsweb site was under obligation to the >Genealogy Society any where. If you are, I would like to know why. I am >not being smart, I just was not aware of any connection other than to share >info. > >It is so frustrating when you start with a name and date of birth. Some >one looks it up over there. It takes about two weeks. Then if you are >lucky enough to get a little info, it is to ask for another look up. If >the census were on line and the cemeteries that is 75 percent of the info. >If all the time spent doing look ups was totalled up you could do a census >in no time flat. > >I have decided I will never know any more about my Jackson line. I do not >have a maiden name for my great grandmother nor place of birth for her or >my great grandfather. > >Next week I am driving over to a cemetery in another county to get dates >for one of my lines. While I am there I will take a survey and submit it >to that County website. That is how simple it is. > >It will take about 2 hours with my husband and myself. How little to give >for so many. Our local city owned cemetery is no problem. You phone City >Hall and give them names, they check records and verify. If the person you >are doing a look up for is coming to town, the City will put a big orange >marker beside the graves so there is no problem finding them. > >Brotherly love and decency seams to be running amuck in our world today. > >Windy > > >==== SCCOLLET Mailing List ==== >Visit http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/4197/colleton.html >Colleton Co SCGenWeb > >============================== >The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >12.8 million individuals and counting. >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com