Watching the comments posted to this newsletter’s web site prompts many questions: Just how private are the facts that we record? Can we really “protect” our genealogy data? Should I copyright my data? Is my data automatically under copyright protection when I publish? Should I keep my data secret? Is it a good idea to …
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Suggestion: The Time to Digitize Historic Items is NOW
WARNING: This article contains personal opinions. It seems that every two or three months, I publish sad news about important records and artifacts being lost forever. Sometimes fires damage or destroy library or archive buildings and all the contents: including records, books, family histories, cemetery records, plat maps, military uniforms, and more. In other articles, …
Suggestion: The Time to Digitize Historic Items is NOW
WARNING: This article contains personal opinions. It seems that every two or three months, I publish sad news about important records and artifacts being lost forever. Sometimes fires damage or destroy library or archive buildings and all the contents: including records, books, family histories, cemetery records, plat maps, military uniforms, and more. In other articles, …