This is really irrelevant. What TIPCOA is doing is
highly unethical, regardless of who did what and when.
It's like paying your way into a museum and then
standing at the back door and charging your friends to
get in and then pocketing that money. I don't care if
you bought half of the paintings that are hanging in
the museum, you bought them for the benefit of the
museum, not for your own personal benefit. TIPCOA did
the work they did FOR TCHA, and that work is now
legally, ethically and morally the property of TCHA.
TIPCOA can't turn around now that they've been asked
to leave TCHA and say "hey wait- I want all that
back." Regardless of what happened 30 years ago, TCHA
is solely responsible for those records now, therefore
they should be the only ones to reap benefits from
those records now. Not to mention the question this
all raises in our minds - Why after 32 years with TCHA
was TIPCOA asked to leave???? TCHA wouldn't have
initiated that break without copious reason.
Interesting wording in this posting as well. In the
letter that was sent to me at my home by TIPCOA,
instead of saying "the TCHA Board decided that TIPCOA
should no longer partner with them" it said "when
TIPCOA was asked to leave". Semantics?
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:14:31 -0500
From: "Sheila Hooker" <shooker06(a)verizon.net>
To: INTIPPEC-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Setting the record straight-TIPCOA
The Tippecanoe County Area Genealogy Society,
TIPCOA, is a non-profit
independent genealogy society with a strong
membership. Our objectives are
to do research, educate, make genealogical materials
available to the
public, and to locate, preserve, index and publish
private and public
records of Tippecanoe County. We support many
libraries in our community.
TIPCOA was formed in early 1970's as a non-profit
organization dedicated to
the preservation of records and building the
genealogical collections housed
at TCHA. Volunteers from DAR, TCHA, and TIPCOA
saved court records,
organized boxes of loose papers, established card
and family files, and
typed hundreds of thousands of index cards for
marriages, wills, estates,
cemetery, and court records. TIPCOA supported the
library for 32 years with
volunteers, by giving money for operating expenses,
equipment and supplies,
and by purchasing books for researchers to use. In
2002 the TCHA Board
decided that TIPCOA should no longer partner with
them. We left the
collection with them hoping it would stay intact for
all researchers.
TIPCOA has a Certified Genealogist researching and
over-seeing all research
requests. Many of our researchers were the
volunteers who helped build
those indexes in the now TCHA library and are well
versed on what is
available and where to locate materials. There are
other original sources
of information besides those housed at the TCHA
library.
Researchers do have a choice and the purpose of this
message is to educate
everyone on this list that TIPCOA is working very
hard at preserving the
family histories of this county and providing
research services to the public.
We hope this sets the record straight.
The TIPCOA board members
For more information you may read the links on our
webpage.
Tippecanoe County Genealogy Society
http://www.rootsweb.com/~intcags/
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