Atta girl Janis! You are right! 100 percent and you have a terrific attitude. Kudos to you Deb in Atlanta -----Original Message----- From: Janis Gilmore <jgilmore@sccoast.net> To: TNMAURY-L@rootsweb.com <TNMAURY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, December 13, 1998 2:24 PM Subject: [TNMAURY-L] Loaned data - wrong credit >I, too, have had the experience of sharing data, and finding on someone >else's website. While I first felt somewhat violated (and then worried -- >was all sensitive material taken out before I shared?) -- I later decided >that the more reasonable view was this: > >a) I do this partly for fun -- because it is like working a crossword >puzzle, except more fulfilling, and the game is never over > >and > >b) I do it partly for posterity -- and the more places my research appears, >the more likely it is to survive. Whether or not I get credit is not the >point. > >Bottom line: I would never publish someone else's work on the net or >elsewhere as my own. I would ask permission to include, or something. Or I >would document the secondary source with primary sources, so that it became >my first-hand work and research. It is rude for people to make the >assumption that it is all right to publish someone else's findings. However, >I have decided just to make my own work as good as possibly, and not worry >about who else appropriates it. > >What DOES matter is that this sort of thing means you must be scrupulously >careful about everything that you share, both the accuracy (so that an >innocent mistake will not be perpetuated) and the sensitive material. > >Just my viewpoint. > >My MAURY county names: WALKER, McGILL, BRASEL/BRAZZELL, McMILLAN, ROBERTSON, >CLARK > >Janis Walker Gilmore >jgilmore@sccoast.net >www.elijahwalker.com > > > > > >==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== >Please remember to include your SURNAMES in the SUBJECT Line. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >