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From: "nance golden" <>
Subject: Re: [GM-L] Re: GenMassachusetts-D Digest V00 #77
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:04:39 -0700


Hear Hear!!!

>
>What's with the greed? Give me a break! It is, in fact as Steve said,
>PUBLIC INFORMATION. So what,--- we do some research and worry someone
else
>is going to use it? BY ALL MEANS, USE IT! I WANT MY DESCENDANTS TO
KNOW
>WHO I WAS AND WHO MY FAMILY AND BRANCH WERE! USE IT---DISSECT
IT---ANALYZE
>IT---PROVE IT RIGHT OR WRONG----BUT JUST GET TO THE POINT OF ALL THIS,
WHICH
>IS A U T H E N T I C I T Y in genealogical research.
>
>I refuse to cave in to petty selfishness under the mantle of copyright
laws.
>(And I'm a writer by profession and know full well the value of copyright.)
>
>I say, grow up, we're in this together, "for the record"--- long after
we're
>a pile of dust.
>
>Genealogically yours and yours and yours and yours . . .
>
> --- Dorothy
>

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