Tina thank you. I wish I had access to it all; I would love to scan the whole ordeal to Rootsweb so people could at least find where their ancestors died, maybe. I can't get to the main library now and have had an injury but they do have the Federal census for 1900 and 1910 and a lady said that they are now coming out with the 1920 one. frances ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Hall" <res00waz@gte.net> To: <SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 16:43 PM Subject: RE: [SC] more thoughts about transcribing census > The government does not and cannot copyright the censuses or any other data > that they publish because it belongs to the public in general. Their printed > materials are uncopyrightable, except in format. Companies that make > available the census on CD's, in books, etc. can only copyright the format, > but never the actual material. > > You can copy the census and publish it in any manner you wish. You will > never own the copyright to that census, only the format in which you > presented it. > > Tina Hall > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frances Wimberly" <fmcw@ktc.com> > To: <SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: February 26, 2001 2:57 PM > Subject: Re: [SC] more thoughts about transcribing census > > > > Shirley; I'm in no position to do any of this, as much as I would like to > > but may I ask: if a person looks up census on microfilm and makes copies > in > > the library of it can that person simply email(if they had a scanner that > > > > ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== > Subscription management instructions are posted at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/SC/misc.html > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > > ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== > [SCRoots-Chat] http://www.egroups.com/group/SCRoots-Chat/ > SUBSCRIBE: SCRoots-Chat-subscribe@egroups.com > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > >