I did not reply with you or the list to make you mad. To keep your research pure you should not share with anyone. I have never posted to Ancestry or any other site. I have shared with other individuals because many people have shared with me. If they choose to post it I have nothing to say about it. Bobbye what you might do is seeing about copy writing your work. I have done trading with several researchers that state the copy write on all of their work Again, I did not intend to make anyone mad. God Bless Joe Boyd Williams ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bobbye Davis" <bobbye@microsped.com> To: <WILLIAMS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 10:55 PM Subject: [WILLIAMS] Let me explain my Williams > Joe, > You misunderstand. My family is not connected to this family. Not a one of > my Williams are connected to this line and they are all there.Not a one of > my Smith's are connected to the Smith line yet all of mine are there. Not > even my gg grand mother Quimby/Smith is connected to this line. > Do you understand that I am angry because now some one will come along and > add this information to their family and we are not even kin? > I did not give a Quimby researcher permission to post any of it. I am not > through with my research and I would have put my own work out when I had it > fine tuned. > I am the one who spent the thousand of dollars and thousand of hours on the > phone interviewing. I am disabled so much of my work has been done by letter > and phone calls since I cannot travel alone or very far. > Now don't you think I should have the right to post my own family and that > way I won't be connected to non kin? I don't even know the lady who posted > this but I do know the name of the person who gave it to her. > Would you like your family connected to me and us not be kin.? It is very > hard to find my family since there are no family Bibles,deeds or wills on > them..The person who posted this has told me when removed it yet I see that > Ancestry has not. > > > ==== WILLIAMS Mailing List ==== > List web page: http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/lists/WILLIAMS.htm > Your WILLIAMS listowner - Carol C-H <cch@netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/ >

> Bobbye what you might do is seeing about copy writing your work. I have done > trading with several researchers that state the copy write on all of their > work Better review the copyright laws. Publicly available information cannot be copyrighted. Names, dates, and places are not created by the genealogist. You can copyright your presentation, such as a web page or written family history, but not the data. So if you post your research anyone can use the vital stats any way they like. Unfortunate but true. Anita