PREFACE TO FAMILY HISTORY INFORMATION

PREFACE to FAMILY HISTORIES

Please read the following before you copy or use information regarding family data that is found on any of the "Family Histories Index Websites".

The family histories contained within these web pages was originally researched, documented, and compiled with great expense from official and family records and documents by the compiler and a host of great researchers who "cared enough to share". By perusing these family pages, you can ascertain the amount of love and devotion that the researchers (many of them deceased) had.

We express our deepest gratitude not only to those who left their personal papers for our use, but also those who continue to freely give us current information in order to keep a "Living History" of the family lines. Some of our Family Data came with the stipulation that we respect their privacy.
For this reason, we strive to omit any person who was born after 1920 and is still living.

Some of this same data and information may be found in publications that were copyrighted by non-familial editors and authors "for monetary gains only". These publishers have threatened to sue for copyright infringement if we use "their" genealogical data that "they" compiled on "our" family ancestors history pages.
To preclude their use of U.S. Copyright Act infringement claims, you should be aware that any "exact copying" of copyrighted published works that was an "original work of the author" is illegal without their "express written consent". However, this same U.S. Copyright Act entitles you to "Fair Use" of this same copyrighted information as long as it is not copied verbatim, and you do not claim ownership or use it for financial gain.

If there are questions as to the source of any family data, please contact:
Rachel Mavis Tomlinson Mims, 235 SW Tall Pine Court, Lake City, FL, 32024
E-mail:

PERMISSION:
If you are a relative of any family featured on these pages, you are welcome to use my data, as long as it is used to further your personal research, and that the following information be included in all of your data obtained from our family files and/or websites:

"The enclosed content material was obtained from data furnished by Rachel Mavis Tomlinson-Mims, [email protected]; 235 SW Tall Pine Court, Lake City, FL 32024, and shall not be disseminated to any public or commercial entity without written permission. This includes all publications, Internet Web Sites, or any other public forums, whether non-profit, or for profit."

As a common curtesy, won't you please inform me when you use my data and also of any errors or additions, so that we can have a "two-way street" of sharing.
"CARE ENOUGH TO SHARE".....Thanks, Rachel Mavis Tomlinson-Mims

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