World Connect is at Rootsweb? I didn't know you could keep people from downloading your tree; very good to know. Thank you for sharing that. It's been a really long time since I've browsed around that site; so many sites, so little time :-) Kathy
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Eliz Hanebury <[email protected]> wrote: > My soapbox <G> putting your genealogy online at freepages at rootsweb > seems to be the surest way so far, short of the Wayback Machine, to > keep your research safe. > > You can put pictures there and long transcriptions, they don't want > plain trees there since they can go to World Connect (where you can > keep people from downloading your tree). So far as is known these > sites will remain free. > > end of soapbox <G> > > > > Eliz > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:41 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ron, you are right that professional genealogists are not banned from >> publishing at all. Professionals are not to download from the internet, add >> info, reupload, etc. Before publishing info, I wanted to make sure that >> someone new to it would consider the options. Some people don't realize that >> book publishing and other options are viable options or that there are >> standards that professional genealogists would use. I appreciate learning >> from others and hearing other options so that I can weigh my options so I >> figured it might be a good thing to interject here on occasion. >> >> Elizabeth Shown Mills' book "Professional Genealogy" notes the standards of >> ICAPGen, the Board for Certification of Genealogists, and the National >> Genealogical Society. In it she makes the point that if copying more than 3 >> paragraphs of info from a book etc, you should get permission to reprint. >> That goes for all obituaries and other things. Elizabeth Shown Mills wrote >> "Evidence Explained" which is the standard for Legacy's Source Writer. >> >> God bless, >> Ellen >> >> >> >> > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > -- Kathy Meyer "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
