To all, thanks for your kind notes and support.
I have cooled off a little, vented my rage to the world and especially to
my husband (for several days now) and have come to the following
conclusions;
This 'lady' from the Gen Soc upset the wrong person. Have you ever heard of
a mad Irishman who didn't first get drunk and then get even?
Middle Valley records will stay on line. The copywrite, if any, would
belong to the Sexton who collected the records. His name is given as the
person who put them on paper in the 1950s. I so noted that when I put them
on line. The IGS did not publish them. They merely copied the typed pages
and put a binding around a lot of various records from different places.
Upper Valley Cemetery records have been filmed. I will just post the film
number. There is an active Genealogy group up in Cambridge but they don't
seem to want to get involved in GenWeb projects. I have been told several
times they will provide the cemetery records for me to post but they never
show up.
Hillcrest Cemetery, owned by the City of Weiser, has over 10,000 persons
buried in it. No one has ever copied the tombstones. What I have put on
line is a computer printout I got from the City Clerk that I scanned with a
very expensive OCR software program. Unfortunately, the City does not even
have the dates of death of most of the people buried there. In this bound
book of copies (of copies) of old typwritten pages is a section with
Hillcrest Cemetery giving a alpha list with birth and death dates. It is
not complete. There is no date given for the information nor any notatation
of where it came from. This is what I want to copy and put on line. Now
since the IGS thinks they own the copywrite, how do I go about finding out
if I can legally copy and put this on line?
I agree with Lucy that there is a conflict of interest on the part of the
State Historical Society. It seems that 'Phyllis' of the State Historical
Society, and whose name is on literature given out at the Library, is the
one who does the research for the Gen Soc at $10 an hour. I wonder if we
taxpayers are paying her a salary??? I am quite confused at the
relationship between the State Library, the Historical Society and the
Genealogy Society.
Pat McNerny (the mad Irishman) Roloff