| Date |
New Page or Event |
|
Walt's Red
Search Button
|
| 01 JAN |
Partitioned Search Engine for users of the
What's New Page Reindexed with 17425 pages |
|
Joyce
on You-Tube |
|
Explanation of what you can find in the various
PICO indexed partitions of the site. How to limit your search to something
manageable |
|
REMINDER - Please remain aware of the restrictions
on posting our work on commercial sites that has been in effect
since the site began in 1996. We are finding many violations of this, whole
pages copied and pasted with no source citation or permission.These violations
are usually from people who have never bothered to thank us or donate to
the site's expenses. We publish it here free and available 24/7
anywhere in the world. There is no advantage to posting it on sites where
people have to pay to see our free gift. It separates us from the people
we help and diminshes the returns we get in exchange for our own projects.
I have already had to curtail publishing many pictures I intended to. They
show up without my name on them all over the place. They are not public
property. We want to continue to develop this site in a trusting and honest
environment without being slave labor to commercial sites. If that is not
possible, we will have to find other ways to share our work. Be moral.
Restrictions
on Use |
|
I have created a Tri-Counties Facebook Group page that you are
welcome to join. Limit subjects to history related material. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=308807939790 |
|
The Bradford County Historical Society announces the
release of its latest publication, “Bradford County Bicentennial
– A Photographic History.” The book was recently released in time for
Christmas and just prior to the beginning of Bradford County’s bicentennial
year in 2012. |
| 01 JAN |
Happy New Year |
|
Mansfield Advertiser - Mansfield
Local News - January 1958 |
|
Just happened on your site by chance and wish I lived there because
I love to read about the past. I live in Broome County. The poem
by Thomas Hardy reminds me of the poem I saw on an old (1800's) gravestone
as I was wandering around thinking about how sad it is that we are all
forgotten in time. "Do not stand at my grave and cry, 'tis a common
lot, to live and die and be forgot." It gave me chills as this
person actually spoke to me from the grave. Peggy Kalka |
| 02 JAN |
Dear Joyce,
Although I was unable to email you via the web site, I did want to
thank you for your very logical site. I have researched individuals
for many years as an indirect part of my job. I do not recall ever
seeing a site so well organized as yours is.
Thank You!
You have proven that it is possible to have an informational site that
actually has information on it,that you can get to in simple logical steps.
Thank you again,
And
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Craig |
| 16 JAN |
Gross- Francis Family Report |
| 17 JAN |
Deaths Reported in the Canton Sentinel
in 2011 |
| 12 FEB |
Cole Family Records |
| 20 FEB |
1956 Diary orf Helen BARBER "Ellison"
of Elmira |
| 25 FEB |
Highland Cemetery, Elkland 2011
- 2256 burials |
|
Partitioned Search Engine for users of the
What's New Page Reindexed with 17457 pages |
| 04 MAR |
Photos of Milltown
School and Bentley Creek Schoolhouse [1920s] |
| 01 APR |
Great
Blue Heron live cam on nest from Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology |
| 14 APR |
Evergreen Cemetery, Tioga
Township -2011 - replaces the partial 1970s listing. 2510 burials. |
| 25 MAY |
1957 Helen BARBER "Ellison" Diary |
| 01 JUN |
Joseph Swimler Burial Ground |
| 23 JUN |
Split oversize pages in obitcemc directory |
|
Partitioned Search Engine for users of the
What's New Page Reindexed with 17641 pages [237 JUN] |
| 25 JUL |
Very important Memoirs
of Fanny Andrus "Bailey" of the years teaching in Smithfield, as
early as the 1840s. |
| 02 OCT |
We completed our sixteenth year on the Internet in
August and started our seventeenth year. Whew!!!! |
|
1966 -98th Alumni Association
Meeting of Mansfield State College |
| 20 OCT |
Leetonia Cemetery 2012 |
| 15 DEC |
I have to bring to your attention a very difficult situation and ask
your help in resolving it. As you know my volunteers and I have spent sixteen
years gathering information for you and publishing it in good faith that
the work and the workers would be respected and treated fairly. In the
past three/four years or so, our site and many others like it have become
victims of people claiming our work as their own and publishing it on findagrave
as their own work, with no permission of the producers and no citation
of the source. Just in October and November of this year a findagrave submitter
copied as many as 150,000 records from our site to his page as his own
work. He has about 772,000 records to his name, so our site is not the
only one he has raided. He has even commented on his page about the work
it is to track down all these lists and links. We have another example
of a Tri-Counties volunteer spending a YEAR on one large cemetery. We published
it and within a month it was on findagrave under someone else's name. Coincidence?
I don't think so. If someone else wants to spend the time and effort to
read cemeteries as we have, they can do so, but it is not correct to piggy-back
on our work in this massive way.
I have notified findagrave of these violations and they have
ignored my emails and letters. They have a policy of fair use, but they
are not enforcing ethical standards within their submitter base. I have
never prohibited fair use of our work, but copying thousands of records,
whole cemetery listings that we have invested our time, effort and money
into producing is way outside the bounds of fair use and there is no way
it can be called ethical or respectful to those of us who have done this
for the genealogical community. We have other listings ready to publish,
but we can not do it in this free-for-all frenzy of take whatever you want
and call it your own environment. Until we can instill upon the findagrave
administration some semblance of control on their submitters, we are disabled.
I know that some of you think findagrave is just the greatest thing,
but you need to know that even they have to adhere to the same ethics,
scholarship, and business etiquette that keep all of us involved in a fair
way. One of our guests stumbled on the 772,000 individual and recognized
what he had done immediately. He brought him to task on his page and his
note was removed right away. This person does not want his followers to
know that he is not operating in a reasonable or fair way. He believes
he is doing a good thing. He is making himself a superhero on our backs.
One of my volunteers said, "I'm out there sweating in the cemetery, and
they're thanking him!!"
We are wounded, we are devastated, and we can't work in this environment
until some control is established. You can help by sending an email to
info@findagrave.com and to Jim Tipton, founder, at Jim@findagrave.com to
let them know that you protest the unethical practices of some of these
aggressive harvesters of the work of others. Please also copy me at Joycetice@aol.com
so I can see what kind of support we are getting from the hundreds of people
who have used and relied on this site for its many years . I can
think of no way to justify putting one's own name on the work of others.
I think that only through the court of public opinion can we make the severity
of this offense clear to them. They are damaging their own credibility
and reputation by not taking action. These violations were not, I believe,
what they intended when they gave people a chance to memorialize their
relatives. |
