In a message dated 5/25/2003 5:52:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
amylyn(a)btconline.net writes:
<< but good luck proving someone took it from your book. >>
Ah, but there are stones in my books that are no longer there and most
indexers I know put a few mistakes in there deliberately just for the purpose of
proving violation. I know I was advised to way back in the 1970s
You know, it took me 10 years to go from cemetery to cemetery while raising 5
kids to copy over 42,000 tombstones and to index the censuses I did. It cost
money to print the books and over ten years to sell the copies to get the
money back.
Over the years, I have shared freely and nice people and church groups have
asked permission to reprint parts and permission has been granted.
I have never seen a group so obsessed with getting around someone's rights..
I will just tell you that in history and genealogy the enjoyment comes from
1/ finding that elusive piece of the puzzle
2/ all the people that you meet on the way lovely or otherwise
3/ the joy of a job you are interested in done to the best of your ability
Don't you think the people who matter know
1/ whether you know your subject
2/ whether you are doing your job
3/ whether you are being honest or dishonest
If you know, they know and boy do they laugh at the frauds behind their backs.
One of these days, I will be going where so many of the history people I have
known have gone before. What do I want to leave behind me? I want to leave
people who say she will be missed and then maybe I can listen as they tell
stories about how I helped them, or something fun we did together or some silly
mistake I made. On my trips this past week, I came up with an entirely new
concept of how I want to spend the rest of my life and sitting tied to my computer
is not high on the list.
Donna Parrish