Gippsland Guardian indexesHi Everyone, One of the indexes I have had sitting on my computer for a few years has had me worried - it is the only copy, and if something happened...
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:32:51 +1000, John Andrews
If you and I were of different branches of the same family with a common ancestor several generations back, we would both "own" that genealogy. It wouldn't be exclusively yours nor exclusively mine.
The events in someone's life are personal to them but they don't "own" them, especially when those events are shared by others. For instance, a marriage is between two people, it cannot be "owned" only by the bride or only by the groom. The event is also shared by a number of other people: the bride's family, the groom's family and those who are guests. If there's a mining accident and a number of miners are end, every one of them "owns" the date and place that it happened. It wouldn't "belong" to just one individual.
1861 English censusLouise O.K., I accept what you say. But at the same time, Ken does have a point. On the computer groups I...
The Crown owns the copyright in this data, however, the other companies own the copyright for the way the data is displayed. Copyright law is complex.
Vic DAVIESHi Gail, Here is Rosina's Marriage Digger - Federation Index. Victoria 1889-1901 Query ----- Surname : davies (1848...
You would have to look at the license on CDs for this but, I believe, that lookups are discouraged but where they are permitted they may not be done for personal financial gain. Individual sites will give further information on that point. Some firms do actually forbid lookups.
As far as this goes, the key word is volunteers. They've donated their time so your local Genealogical Society hasn't actually had to pay them for their work. All they are doing is recovering costs, as they say.
Given, but I don't expect you to necessarily agree.
