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Elizabeth, thanks for the information. It might be an interesting exercise=
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for everyone to take a look at their corresponding county on the=20
ncroots.com site. I personally don't mind sites being involved in more=20
than one project, and I don't mind people linking to my site, but I *do*=20
have an aversion to people deep-linking into my data without proper=20
attribution. Certainly I haven't been asked by anyone with ncroots if I'd=
=20
like to participate in their project, but it seems that all of the data=20
links for Anson county go to my page on Rootsweb rather than any data of=20
their own.
Angie
However, when NCGenWeb pages are being copied verbatim without
permission,=
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there are grounds for complaint. I would like to call the
readership's=20
attention to the Surry County page on
NCROOTS.com:
http://ncroots.com/Surry/
The entire contents of the page are as follows:
1) "Surry County was formed from Rowan County. It was named in honor of=20
Lord Surrey, a member of Parliament who protested the taxes levied on the=
=20
colonisis [sic] by the British. The County Seat is Dobson."
2) a list of "Some Surnames". A look at Linda Sorrell's NCGenWeb page for=
=20
Surry County
http://www.geocities.com/~surryco/
reveals that this list of names has been copied, badly, from the list of=20
researchers for specific surnames on Linda's page. There are many typos,=
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but the order of names is identical.
3) a list of "Some Data Links":
Surry County wills
Surry County Marriages
Cobler Family Cemetery
Union Hill Friends Church Cemetery
ALL FOUR of the above are links to Linda Sorrell's NCGenWeb site, but are=
=20
not identified as such
and these are followed by three extremely general links:
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites for North Carolina
Genealogy Search Engines
Internet Search Engines
At the bottom of this page appear the words
"=A9 Hosted by Terria 2000, 2001"
I would argue that there is NO original material on this page worth=20
copyrighting, and that NCGenWeb has legitimate grounds for complaint about=
=20
this site. However, since Terria is no longer part of NCGenWeb,
that's=20
another issue unless Diane or some other NCGenWeb CC is involved in the=20
administration of the
ncroots.com project.
Terria also hosts the Wilkes County page on
ncroots.com, and has done a=20
similar thing with the surname lists there.
Furthermore, the Alamance county page on ncroots, which is hosted by B.J.=
=20
Rountree, has a list of surnames cribbed from the list on the
NCGenWeb=20
page. Compare
http://ncroots.com/Alamance/
and
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncalaman/surnames.html
The introductory material about the history of Alamance county also bears=
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a striking resemblance to that on the NCGenWeb page.
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In summary, I find that on several
ncroots.com pages there is virtually NO=
=20
new or unique information, and what little does appear was taken
directly=
=20
from NCGenWeb without acknowledgement.
Diane, can you please clarify your relationship to this project? Your name=
=20
appears at the bottom of
http://www.ncroots.com/usefulLinks.htm as=20
webmaster, but with copyright dates of 2000 and 2001, not 2002. Do you=20
have any current involvement with these pages? If not now, then when did=
=20
your association with this project end? Were you responsible for, or
did=
=20
you sanction, the wholesale borrowing from the corresponding county
pages=
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at NCGenWeb?
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