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A word about copyrighting. What you see here
is my research. I did the work,
and it is copyrighted by me. That means that you can print it out to review
for your personal study, but you may not republish it in any fashion, including electronically. If you are preparing to
publish a work and would like to cite something that you find on this site,
you must obtain permission from me first if what you are using is not within
the guidelines of fair use. You
can contact me via e-mail.
Whether or not you publish your work, if you use information that you find
here, and you do not research it in the original sources yourself, you must
document this web site as your source. If you use information that you find
on this web site and cite my sources as your sources, you are committing
plagiarism.
To avoid committing plagiarism, cite this web site as your source for each
specific piece of information that you use from here in the following manner:
The
Coon Families of East Central Indiana, Elizabeth Ellen Wilson, author, online
<http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~coonweb/>, Coonrod S. Coon data
downloaded [date it was downloaded].
For example, if you use
birth, marriage, and death information on Coonrod S. Coon and Barbara
Radabaugh, your citations would look something like this:
Coonrod
S. Coon
b. 20 September 1803, [West] Virginia1
d. 31 October 1861, probably Hancock county, Indiana1
married Barbara Radabaugh1
7 May 1822 in Harrison county, [West] Virginia1
Barbara Radabaugh
b. between 1802 and 1805, Harrison county, [West] Virginia1
d. 2 September 1882 Greensboro, Greensboro township, Henry
county, Indiana1
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1The Coon Families of East Central Indiana Web
Site, Elizabeth Ellen Wilson, author, online
<http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~coonweb/>, Coonrod S. Coon and Barbara
Radabaugh birth, marriage, and death data, downloaded 30 September 2006.
Note that each piece of information is cited. Redundant? Perhaps, but
necessary.
There is also such a thing as fair use. Fair use will not be described in detail here. There are many good
sources on the internet (see Cyndi Howell's link below) that do just that.
However, there is a common practice in the genealogical community today to
use a large amount of information that has been researched by someone else
(for example, from a GEDCOM file) and directly import it into one's own
database. Citations of where the information came from is a step forward, but
it is not enough to avoid violation of copyright and fair use. An example is
if I download a GEDCOM file from Ancestry.com, convert it into my genealogy
program of choice, and then use the information found within to lead me in a
certain direction in my own research, there is no problem. If, however, I then take that GEDCOM
information, import it into my working copy of data that I disseminate or
publish, even if I cite the original contributor as its source, I am breaking
the law. Not only that, but it's not fair. It has to do with quantity. I've
just perhaps doubled or tripled the size of my data by using someone else’s
data. Not fair, and illegal.
Violations of this copyright will be pursued to the fullest extent of the
law.
This site may be linked to but not duplicated in any way without my consent.
For more information on copyrights and fair use, see Cyndi's List - Copyright Issues.
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