YOU GO MARGIE DANIELS. I AM GLAD THAT YOU SAID WHAT YOU THOUGHT. I AGREE
WITH YOU 100 PERCENT.
NOT TO PAT YOU ON THE BACK BUT YOU GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to you for taking a stand.
Dont we just wish we could make people stop griping. I have never wanted
anyones internet service to explode as bad as I wish "hers" would.
I am probably making people mad also but I am tired of the crap.
Scott Warren
-----Original Message-----
From: Margie Daniels [mailto:mdaniel3@midsouth.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 10:41 PM
To: GAGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [GAGEN] I am not the one
No Donna I do not have a sinus infection not at all.
And I take that as an insult.
I have been transcribing information for these sites way too long to have
you come along at this late date to insult me.
And I did take it as an insult. Before you start you may want to do a
search engine with my name Margie Daniels and see just what my name is hung
on before you want to give yourself a big pat on the back.
The one thing I never did was place my material at a Genealogy society for
money or sell it for my own profit.
This project was and is dedicated to free genealogy research by all and not
a device for Genealogy Societies to push their books or harvest information
to be used for their societies. When RW first offered space I paid a yearly
fee to have the web space for the counties I had, as many others did.
Does this sound like I don't like Genealogy Societies, you bet your last
thin dollar on it. They are self serving and the only thing they are
interested in is a profit for the society.
You are not the only person to walk cemeteries, transcribe census and spend
your own money on parking, gas, copies and all other expenses, you are just
one of many. As for writing books and having them published we have many,
many, many genealogists on these county sites that have done exactly that
for years and years. Check the Macon and Crawford county sites all the
cemeteries are there by people that walked the cemeteries and one was even
bitten by a snake doing so. If you doubt me go to the Central Georgia
Genealogy site and look at what Millie Stewart, Guelda Hay, Davine Campbell
and Mr. Henry have published.
Their material is on the sites. So what is the big deal over what format it
is in.
And you of all people should love PDF then you could protect the pages from
being copied only viewed on the site.
Now let just get down to it.
What I said was this " CC's should accept genealogy information that is
sent to them no matter what format it is sent in PERIOD"
If someone wants to submit to me in PDF to protect their work then it will
be published in PDF and nothing else. I care not who likes or don't like it.
The only persons I have found that griped about it was those that could not
take the information off the sites.
So I guess what makes this organization stand out is that we have THE
GREATEST, KINDEST, GIVINGEST, HARDEST WORKING group that expect no pats on
the back for all their FREE work. I take 2 and sometimes 3 trips a year to
Macon county to do research it is 550 miles from my home. Not to mention the
3x a year to the archives in DC a couple of trips to the Atlanta archives
and the great library in Macon, Ga.
I have material that nobody has but me for Shelby County, Tennessee. I
could probably make a great amount of money from it but no, there will be no
profit here because I do what I do to help others and not for money, fame,
glory or a pat on the back and by the way much of what I do is in a pen name
I do not get the credit for it at all and I want it that way.
My research began in 1968 and I seriously started traveling to do it in
1972. I have been in every county in Alabama, Ga. Tennessee, NC, SC and
Virginia, not to mention the scattered counties in other states.
It horrifies me that somebody would refuse genealogy material because it is
PDF.
I know this will make a bunch of you real mad but guess what the snotty note
made me real mad.
There is no fence riding on this one either you place your material for free
on the sites with no strings attached or you have to keep it off and hold it
near to whatever you call dear to you.
Margie Daniels
----- Original Message -----
From: <MFLP(a)aol.com>
To: <GAGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [GAGEN] Put it up no matter what format it is in
In a message dated 3/3/02 3:16:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mdaniel3(a)midsouth.rr.com writes:
<< ALL records sent to a county CC should be placed on the site. NO
MATTER
what format they come in. >>
Ah yes, but we are not talking about County Records sent to a CC. We are
talking about records that I copied by walking the headstones or lifting
books in a courthouse or sitting in front of a microfilm reader or going
to
people's houses to talk to them and photocopying bibles that they
shared
with
me so that "ccs" like you could advise people that my
Copyrights that I
paid
the US government for aren't any good. I am not that kind of
genealogist.
These are my copyrighted records and I have the right to have them
presented
as I want to. I refer you to the Library of Congress. Just type in
my
name
as author.
You must have a worse sinus infection than I do. I am going to look at
your
page or pages. They must be fantastic if you believe what you are
saying.
There is also a word called integrity. I refer you to a dictionary.
Donna
By the way, I already have an attorney of record.
In a message dated 3/3/02 3:16:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mdaniel3(a)midsouth.rr.com writes:
<< Either print it and sell it or put it up with no restrictions. The
minute
you place it on the website you lose control over it, like it or
not.
If you even think you will sue over copyright then I dare you call some
attorneys and ask them how much they want for a retainer for your
material
that you never even filed a copyright for anyway. The retainer fee
will
probably be more than the book would ever make if you could prove your
case.
Now, having said that.
I do like simple pages so they load clean and fast.
I do not ignore new technology because some may not want to use the PDF
or
any other form of program needed, I will make it available and
then
the
user has the decision to make kinda like making all the kids stay
in at
recess because one kid don't want to go out.
I never assume that internet users are not capable of setting up their
computers to view them just because one complains. What I do is try and
help them by letting them know they can set up their monitor if they
cannot
see well, and speaking of that what about the blind?
Do we just not put up anything because the blind cannot read it, no they
have programs that read to them.
>>
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