I agree with Janice, it's important to support (financially) research. I've purchased two copies of your "Free Blacks of Louisa County..." -- one for my personal/family use and one to have available for my students. It's a real gem. --Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: Abercrombie Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:37 PM To: valouisa@rootsweb.com Subject: [VALOUISA] Cemetery book index How generous of Pat and Pattie to allow the index of their book to be put on the Louisa site. Having compiled a number of books myself, I know the time, energy and money spent doing so. The internet is wonderful for people sharing and helping but there comes a financial factor when you publish a book and sales is the answer. What with people being willing to help and do look-ups it seems one person can buy the book and make it available to the world! This certainly cuts down on sales. I hope those of you who do find your names in the index will buy their book so they will have the encouragement to continue this valuable service to genealogist and to the history of the county. Janice ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VALOUISA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message