Newsletter of the

WOOD COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

P.O. BOX 832
QUITMAN, TEXAS 75783
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Volume 24, No. 3 October, 2009 Newsletter No. 96
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County Genealogy Society October 19 at
Changes In Newsletter 7 p.m. at the Quitman Public Library at
202 E. Goode in Quitman. A few
Start During September members gather before the meeting to
The Bulletin newsletter of the Wood visit and eat at 5:30 p.m. at Peralta’s
County Genealogy Society has been Mexican Restaurant at 607 S. Main in
available on the website at Quitman. Members and guests are
http://woodtxgene.com/ since the middle invited to join us.
of September. This, the first quarterly
issue since, represents a change in Membership Fees Now Due
delivery. Members with an email
address will be able to download a
By Mail or At Oct. Meeting
copy from the website. If they then Membership fees for the 2009-2010
wish a printed copy, they can print a society year are now due. If you have
copy from the downloaded file. not yet done so, you can mail them to
Those who do not have email or Wood County Genealogical Society,
computer access will receive a printed P.O. Box 832, Quitman, Texas 75783.
copy by mail. The purpose of this Make checks to the society. Current
change is to save the expense of printing membership dues are $15 per individual
or $20 per family. Dues may also may
and mailing newsletters, a major on-
be paid at the October meeting Oct. 19 at
going expense for the society in the past.
the Quitman Public Library.
We appreciate your cooperation. If you
have questions, you can email newsletter
editor Deason Hunt at Wild West Fun in Wood
netexas@gmail.com. County October 17
Wood County Genealogical Society
Computer & Bulletin Tips (WCGS) Members who attended the
At Oct. 19 WCGS Meeting meeting last spring to hear the Texas
Pistalaros and Wood County’s Doc
A program on how to use your
Davis will be interested to hear that the
computer for communication and
research in Genealogy will be presented first East Texas Wildwest Fest will be
at the October meeting of the Wood held in Winnsboro during the Autumn

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Trails celebration on October 17, 2009,
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Historic
Depot Parking Lot. At this location will
be wild-west re-creations (shootouts,
etc), western costume contest, trick roper
exhibitions, food and drink, and much
more. For more details, go to the
Pistalaros website at
http://www.crossroadsvigilantes.com.
Links: October Is Family
History Month
October is traditionally Family
History Month. Kimberly Powell at
About.com has ten suggestions on how
individuals can celebrate this month.
You can see the suggestions at this web
address:
http://genealogy.about.com/od/holidays/t
p/family-history-month.htm.
FREE Database of Wood
County Names
Mark Reid, Publications Fulfillment
and Computer Database chairman and
co-chairman and newsletter executive
editor, has made an offer to members: a
computer file copy of his almost 19,000
person Wood County database. The
price is “FREE.” Details are in a
comment over at the Wood County
Coffee Klatch at Genealogywise.
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/w
oodcotxgencoffeeklatch (a clickable
link). If interested, you can email Mark
at the society email address:
woodco@suddenlink.net.
Thomas J. Shaw of Wood
County & Alabama
Betty Vaughn has posted information
on the Thomas Jefferson Shaw family of
Alabama and Wood County, Texas and
Shaw’s Civil War service and a Shaw
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family photo at the Wood County
Genealogy Coffee Klatch at
GenealogyWise, the Genealogy Social
Network. This is a clickable link to that
page:
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/w
oodcotxgencoffeeklatch.
Query Followup: Taylor
Re: Isaac (Ike) Taylor from a query
of Roby Ottwell, first published in the
July 2009 newsletter. “Isaac (Ike)
Taylor, Mr. Ottwell’s grandfather,
…was killed in 1922 when a hired man
killed Taylor and stole his money.”
Society researcher and previous
newsletter editor Shirley Bates went
back to the Winnsboro News office
(following the July newsletter) and
asked to look at back copies of the
Winnsboro News, but they didn’t allow
her to look because the newspaper is too
old and fragile to handle. Then she went
back to the library and tried again going
through microfilm, this time from about
July until December. Again, she didn’t
find anything. Member Dorothy Harbin
was still looking in the microfilm at
Quitman Library and looked at a site
called smalltownpapers.com and it stated
that there was a reprint in July, 1956 but
she could never find the article. She
looked in the Wood County Democrat
(as Bates had done earlier) and the
Wood County Echo, and found nothing.
Harbin also talked to a man named
Taylor, and he had heard the story and
had seen the rope on the water tower
where the hired man was supposed to
have been hanged, but it was frayed and
had been up there quite some time. He
said he was no kin but there are two
other Taylor families in the county and
that she might try to contact them.
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Bates and Harbin both looked at the
microfilm of the Wood County
Democrat and looked through society
books at the Quitman Public Library.
Bates went to the courthouse to check on
a death certificate, but Isaac Taylor was
not listed in Wood County. The County
Clerk suggested that since Winnsboro is
in different counties, Wood, Hopkins,
and Franklin, it’s probably listed in one
of their death index books.
According to Winnsboro News of
Oct. 27, 1922, “killed on Sunday” in
Sherman, one Maynard Taylor. Could
this have been Ike, and he delivered to
Sherman instead of in Wood County?
Bates wrote again to Ottwell Sept.
10, 2009 that Harbin had found “a
discrepancy.” Harbin has found an
article in a 1944 newspaper with an
obituary or an article about Grogan (his
mother’s maiden name) Shoemaker. It
stated that Grogan’s father was the man
who was killed by a black man and then
the black man was taken from the jail
and hanged from the water tower in
Quitman. Harbin contacted the Dallas
library and they looked it up and said
that it was listed as Jan. 1, 1944. She
found an article about his being very
sick in the Wood County Democrat on
Dec. 30, 1943, but the next newspaper
(Jan. 6, 1944) is unreadable on the
microfilm. She found Mr. Shoemaker’s
wife’s maiden name from the marriage
book in the genealogy room at the
Quitman Public Library, and she also
found some Shoemakers in the 1900,
1910, and 1920 censuses. The maiden
name of his wife was Annie (Anniebell)
Wallace Taylor and her father’s name
was Wallace Taylor.
Bates also wrote Ottwell , “It’s
possible that whoever told you that Ike
Taylor was killed in that way may have
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gotten him confused with Grogan
Shoemaker. The Taylors lived next door
to the Shoemakers. It’s unfortunate, but
many of our genealogy stories result this
way because they are repeated over the
years without documentation and people
get confused.” (Editor’s note: the
previous information is taken from a
letter written to Mr. Ottwell by Shirley
Bates in August 2009.)
Query: Womack
The following query was posted by
Nancy Carter on the Wood County
Genealogy Coffee Klatch on
Genealogywise:
I have a mystery concerning Sally
Womack that married Louis Young
about 1870. They resided in Wood
County until Sally died about 1900. Who
were Josh and Nora Womack? If you
have a response, you can go to her post
on Genealogywise at this address
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/w
oodcotxgencoffeeklatch (<– clickable
link) or reply with a comment here and
we will pass it on to the Coffee Klatch.
From the Archives Of
The WCGS Newsletter
Regarding the Wood County Courthouse
Fire December 11, 1878:
From Volume 1, Page 1, of the Civil
Minutes of the District Court of Wood
County, Texas:
January 27, 1879
“This is the first Minute Books used
after the fire which occurred in the
morning of the 11th of December, A. D.
1878, at about 2 o’clock in the night, and
which resulted in Destruction of the
Courthouse and all the papers and
records contained therein, said house is
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supposed to have been set on fire by
some incendiary, but no one has been
able to trace it to the purpertrator (sic) up
to this date. Great was the loss in said
fire to both private individuals and the
officers of this county. District Court
was in session at the time.” (This was
from a newsletter entry labeled
“Miscellaneous Tidbits from the Late
Ona Wood’s Notes”, 1994 Volume, July
Issue, Newsletter No. 35, page 50.)
Good Turnout At Society
Booth at Winnsboro Expo
A big turnout at the Winnsboro
Business Expo on the first weekend of
Autumn Trails Days resulted in lots of
visitors to the Wood County
Genealogical Society booth/table. Fifty-
one people signed the booth register and
many more stopped to inquire about our
genealogy and to visit. Surname some of
the visitors are researching include
Wilcox, Davis, Newsome, Johnson,
Dodgen, Porter, Lindsey, Bearden, Cox,
Sutton, Michael, Ray, Mills, Robison,
Sansom, Jones, McElyea, Coe, Gaines,
Kennedy, Bumgardner, and Williams.
Working at the booth were (above)
members Vice-president Dorothy Harbin
(who set up the display on Friday and
was there from start to finish on
Saturday) and Deason Hunt, and the
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(below) Mary Beth Ramage, Martha
Hunt, and Dorothy Harbin.
The society received lots of
publicity, and a number of booth visitors
expressed an interest in getting started
on their own family lines and some an
interest in coming to our regular monthly
meetings. Follow-ups to try to take
advantage of the interest were discussed
during the day.
Computer Tip: How To
Make Reading Type Larger
Two tips from members of
GenealogyWise:
1) Hold down the control key and hit
the + key (plus key.) to make type
larger. To make smaller again, do the
same but use the – key (minus key). The
shift key is not needed to do this.
2) Hold down the control key and
use the scroll wheel on your mouse.
Scroll forward for larger type and
backward for smaller type.
Do You Know How Many
Ancestors You Have?
Do you know how many ancestors
you have? Of course not. Let’s simplify
the question: How many ancestors do
you have in the past four hundred years?
Many people do not know the answer to
that question. Care to guess? (The
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answer is given below but please don’t
peek just yet.)
The number of ancestors is simple to
calculate as it is a simple mathematical
progression: every person has two
parents, four grandparents, eight great-
grandparents, sixteen great-great-
grandparents and so on. The number
doubles with each generation. As you go
back in years, the numbers soon become
very large. Family Forest, the producers
of a CD-ROM lineage-linked database
that digitally connects people with each
other, can be considered experts in this
topic. They have an excellent chart that
illustrates the numbers quite well. Take a
look at:
www.familyforest.com/resources.html.
Answer to the earlier question: If we
assume that there is a new generation
every twenty-five years, someone born
400 years before you would be 16
generations removed from you.
According to the Family Forest chart,
you would have 65,535 unique ancestors
born in the previous 16 generations,
assuming no overlap (that is, none of
your ancestors were cousins to other
ancestors). However, all families can
find a few cousins somewhere in the
limbs of the family tree, resulting in the
same ancestor(s) showing up in multiple
places in the pedigree charts. Ask
anyone who has done French-Canadian
genealogy or has researched any families
that lived for generations in one small
village almost anyplace on earth.
If you go back to the time of
Charlemagne, roughly 40 to 50
generations ago, you discover that you
theoretically have more than one trillion
ancestors! Of course, that’s far more
than the total number of people who ever
lived on the face of the earth. Obviously,
you and everyone else have cousin
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marriages in your ancestry, resulting in
ancestors showing up in multiple places
in your family tree.
This article is from Eastman’s
Online Genealogy Newsletter and is
copyright 2002 by Richard W. Eastman.
It is re-published here with the
permission of the author.
Rock Hill & Holly Tree
Cemetery Surveys
The Rock Hill (Quitman) and Holly
Tree (Holly Lake Ranch) cemeteries
have been recently surveyed and
booklets placed on the shelf in the
cemetery area of the Wood County
research resources in the genealogy
library. Member Ronnie Vance
performed the surveys and prepared the
booklets and gave them to the library.
Rock Hill Cemetery is in Central Wood
County near Quitman and on County
Road 1477 about 6/10ths of a mile east
of the intersection of FM 515 and FM
2966. Death dates on tombstones
indicated by the survey range from 1867
to 2009. Holly Tree Cemetery is next to
Holly Tree Chapel in the Holly Lake
community in eastern Wood County on
FM 2869 about 1/2 mile south of FM 14.
Death dates on tombstones in the survey
range from 1979 to 2009.
A Look At Wood County
In 1910 Texas Almanac
The following description of Wood
County comes from the 1910 Texas
Almanac found by a search of Google
Books. It is among the “full view” books
one can find online FOR FREE at that
web service. You can search on places,
surnames, etc. to see what is available.
Some books allow no view, some just a
snippet view.
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WOOD COUNTY
Wood County lies In Northeast
Texas It was organized from a part of
Van Zandt County in 1850. Its estimated
population is about 25,000. Quitman the
county seat has about 500, Mineola
3,500 Winnsboro 3,500 and Alba 500.
Total assessment $7,666,415.
The Sabine River is one of its south
boundary lines with a large tributary of
the same running through the western
portion of the county called Lake Fork.
Mineola is located on the Texas and
Pacific Railroad 80 miles east of Dallas
and 70 miles west of Marshall. Quitman,
the county seat, is situated 10 miles
north of Mineola. Winnsboro is situated
in the northern part of the county about
16 miles from Quitman. It is located on
the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad.
The Texas Southern Railroad also runs
to Winnsboro from Marshall.
The county was named In honor of
Gov. Wood, the second Governor of
Texas. The county seat was named in
honor of Gen. Quitman. The county is
traversed by the following roads: Texas
and Pacific 25.4 miles, Missouri Kansas
and Texas 19.78 miles, Texas Southern
17 miles, International and Great
Northern 4.3 miles, Texas Short Line 9
miles.
The surface of the county is
generally level only broken by water
courses. The soil is varied but generally
yellow loam though there is some white
and some red sandy land particularly
adapted to orchards and truck growing.
Timber is in vast varieties and large
quantities such as swamp and yellow
pine, post oak, white oak, red oak, black
oak, and burr oak, walnut, hickory, gum,
black and sweet mulberry, dogwood,
blackjack elm, etc.
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Important streams are Sabine River,
Lake Fork, Big Caney, and Big Sandy
with other smaller streams some that
afford water power for Ginning cotton,
grinding corn and wheat, making
shingles, and other Industries. On these
streams are numerous lakes fed by
springs well stocked with fish.
Besides saw mills, and there are
several, there Is a box factory at Mineola
that runs on full time manufacturing all
kinds of fruit and vegetable crates and
boxes besides soap starch and cracker
boxes.
The average price of raw land is $5
per acre, activated land $12.50 per acre.
Cotton yields one fourth bale per acre,
corn 17 bushels, sugar cane for syrup
600 gallons, Irish potatoes 50 bushels,
sweet potatoes 60 bushels, tomatoes 60
bushels, and peanuts 25 bushels. About
150 car loads of potatoes are shipped
annually besides about 50 car loads of
mixed vegetables. An average of 50 car
loads of peaches has been shipped each
season for several years.
Last year’s tax rolls disclosed the
following live stock: 13,406 cattle, 662
horses and mules, 6,187 hogs, and a few
sheep and goats.
There are 82 public free schools in
the county employing 121 teachers.
The county is under laid with very
valuable deposits of lignite pottery and
brick clays. At Alba several lignite
mines are in constant operation. The
strata vary in thickness from 5 to 12 feet,
and the fuel is of high quality. From the
Texas almanac and state industrial guide,
Publisher Belo & Co., 1910, Original
from Harvard University, Digitized May
8, 2007, Page 282
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Query: Wade, Whittaker
This query was posted on the Coffee
Klatch on GenealogyWise by Jammie
Barker.
“looking for Wade and Whittakers
lived in Scroggins and Winnsboro
areas.” If you would like to reply, you
can post a comment at
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/w
oodcotxgencoffeeklatch.
Wood County Coffee Klatch
For Online Info Sharing
There is a strictly unofficial place set
up for anyone interested to talk about
Wood County genealogy over at
Genealogywise. It’s open to society
members or anyone who wishes to pitch
in or read. If you are interested, you can
go there with this address typed into
your web browser:
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/w
oodcotxgencoffeeklatch.
Quitman Library: Surnames
In Society Vertical Files
The Wood County Genealogical
Society vertical files are housed in file
cabinets in the genealogy room at the
Quitman Public Library. Surname
folders may include many kinds of
information including ancestor charts,
family sheets, and correspondence to and
from the society concerning the
particular surname.
Surnames A
Adams, Aaron, Ables, Acker, Adrian,
Agens, Alexander, Allen, Allison,
Allred, Amason, Anders, Anderson,
Anthony, Applegate, Armour,
Armstrong, Arnold, Arrington, Attaway,
Atwood, Austin, Avery, Aycock.
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Surnames B
Bailey, Ballard, Banks, Barnes, Bass,
Bates, Beard, Beaty, Beasley, Beckham,
Belcher, Bell, Bellomy, Bennett, Benton,
Bentley, Berry, Bird, Birdwell, Black,
Blackstone, Blackwell, Blakely, Blalock,
Bodiford, Bookout, Boone, Booth,
Boyd, Boykin, Bradford, Branam,
Branch, Brazzil, Breen, Brewer, Bridges,
Brittain, Britton, Brock, Bromberg,
Brooke, Brown, Browning, Bruce,
Brummett, Bruner, Bryson, Buchanan,
Buckner, Bullard, Bullock, Burden,
Burtkett, Burnett, Burns, Busby, Butler,
Butts, Byers, and Bynum.
To be continued…
Query:
McGahey/McGaha/McGahee
Hello! I am trying to locate the burial
place of John H. McGahey (McGaha,
McGahee) and Rebeca McGahey. His
possible date of death is around 1890. I
believe he was a Civil War veteran.
Also, possibly buried near would be
Samuel McGahey and wife Martha
“Mattie” Flowers McGahey. I have lead
that they could possibly be in Quitman
cemetery. If you have any knowledge of
these folks I would be very grateful for
any help.
thank you–Melinda Dennis
(mdennis35@aol.com)
Wood County Peace Officers
One of member Lou Mallory’s latest
columns, published regularly in the
Hawkins-Holly Lake Gazette, features
nine Wood County peace officers killed
as the pursued their duties. You can read
her column series new offerings in the
Gazette every two weeks. Her previous
columns are in the Gazette at its website:
http://hlrgazette.com.
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Demystifying Copyrights
(From Rootsweb Review)
Copyrights may be the single most
misunderstood topic on the planet, and
unfortunately, genealogists are prone to
asserting copyrights improperly.
Many assume copyrights are all
about writing. They are applied to
writing, but are more specifically about
rights – e.g., the right of an author
establishes copying guidelines for
intellectual property.
We see copyrights applied to music,
photography and elsewhere – but often,
they are misapplied. You may be
surprised to learn which items can’t be
copyrighted:
1. dates
2. facts
3. slogans
4. short phrases
5. conversations
6. modifications of another’s work
7. domain names
8. public domain items
9. antique treasures, such as old books
and diaries
Before you wonder if I am a
copyright lawyer, I’m not. I learned this
and more from the United States
Copyright Office, which states,
“Copyright is a form of protection
grounded in the U.S. Constitution and
granted by law for original works of
authorship fixed in a tangible medium of
expression. Copyright covers both
published and unpublished works.”
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I recommend the FAQs (frequently
asked questions), some which are
excerpted:
Can I register a diary I found in
my grandmother’s attic?
“You can register copyright in the
diary only if you own the rights to the
work, for example, by will or by
inheritance. Copyright is the right of the
author of the work or the author’s heirs
or assignees, not of the one who only
owns or possesses the physical work
itself. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics,
section “Who Can Claim Copyright.”
How long does a copyright last?
“The term of copyright for a
particular work depends on several
factors, including whether it has been
published, and, if so, the date of first
publication. As a general rule, for works
created after January 1, 1978, copyright
protection lasts for the life of the author
plus an additional 70 years. For an
anonymous work, a pseudonymous
work, or a work made for hire, the
copyright endures for a term of 95 years
from the year of its first publication or a
term of 120 years from the year of its
creation, whichever expires first. For
works first published prior to 1978, the
term will vary depending on several
factors. To determine the length of
copyright protection for a particular
work, consult chapter 3 of the Copyright
Act (title 17 of the United States Code).”
How much of someone else’s work
can I use without getting permission?
“Under the fair use doctrine of the
U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible
to use limited portions of a work
including quotes, for purposes such as
commentary, criticism, news reporting,
and scholarly reports. There are no legal
rules permitting the use of a specific
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number of words… or percentage of a
work…”
How much do I have to change in
order to claim copyright in someone
else’s work?
“Only the owner of copyright in a
work has the right to prepare, or to
authorize someone else to create, a new
version of that work. Accordingly, you
cannot claim copyright to another’s
work, no matter how much you change
it, unless you have the owner’s
consent…”
The website discusses copyright
registration, which is useful, but not
mandatory. And since authors have
varying ideas as to the conditions under
which works can be reproduced, I
recommend stating your intentions
upfront.
RootsWeb Review does this at the
end of each issue.
“Permission to reprint articles from
RootsWeb Review is granted unless
specifically stated otherwise, provided:
1. the reprint is used for non-
commercial, educational purposes; and
2. the following notice appears at the
end of the article: Previously published
in RootsWeb Review: [date, volume,
number]”
If you have questions or wish to tell
us about reprints, we’d love to hear from
you. Now, isn’t that easy?
And if you’d like to establish your
own “upfront” copyright guidelines,
explore Creative Commons, a non-
profit organization. It provides: “tools
that let authors, scientists, artists, and
educators easily mark their creative
work with the freedoms they want it to
carry.”
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Many RootsWeb users, such as Jon
Anderson, use Creative Commons. At
the bottom of his webpage, click the icon
for permissions to share and adapt his
research.
Jon’s reasons for using Creative
Commons are interesting.“Personally, I
put everything I do with family history
under one of these [Creative Common]
licenses because my purpose for doing
genealogy is to connect people to their
ancestors. I want the records I work on
to become freely available, even when
people can no longer contact me.
Traditional copyright is very ownership-
based and over time, records become
locked up in copyright and not available.
People move, eventually pass on, and
unfortunately sometimes their records
pass out of accessibility with them. By
using the Creative Commons licenses, I
can grant people the level of freedom to
use my work, and to use it in new ways,
without it being necessary for them to
track me down and get special
permission every time. Of course, most
of the time people are grateful and
contact me anyway.”
Rootsweb Review Editor’s
Comments: We receive many emails
monthly regarding copyright
infringement based on other members
copying information from their trees or
sites. As Mary notes, information such
as dates, names and places are not
copyrightable. If you choose to publish
your research publicly you are allowing
others to utilize that information. On a
related note, in WorldConnect there is an
option to allow others to download a
gedcom file of your tree – if you choose
to allow others to copy your tree you are
implying consent for them to utilize this
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information and to add it to their tree.
On the other hand, there are a few items
I want to mention that are protected
under copyright law; notes that the tree
owner makes about family members or
research, or an authors evaluation about
their research. A basic rule of thumb for
what is protected is, if the content is the
individual’s personal thoughts, their
intellectual property, it is protected by
copyright law. Previously published in
RootsWeb Review: 14 October 2009,
Vol. 12, No. 10
Out of Print Books Update
Stay tuned.
We are likely to hear more about the
agreement just reached by Google Books
which will allow it to scan and put out-
of-print books (but not yet of the age to
enter the public domain) online for
viewing or downloading for pay. Not all
of the details were available over at the
Google Blog, but this much was clear.
1. The agreement is between Authors
Guild and the Association of American
Publishers and Google. 2. It will apply to
all out-of-print books printed after 1923
(thus likely not yet in the public
domain). 3. Those who own a legitimate
copyright can opt out of the book being
offered by Google by a specified date
(which was not published in the blog).
4. Those holding that copyright on out-
of-print books can establish privacy
rights (who can view, etc) and set their
own price if the book is priced for
selling or withdraw the book altogether.
5. For books whose owners do not opt
out, Google can make the book available
for viewing or sale at a “reasonable
default” price. 6. “This allows access to
the many orphan works whose owners
have not yet been found and accumulates
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revenue for the rights holders, giving
them an incentive to step forward.”
More will surely be heard about this,
both pro and con. It will mean access to
books to some and stealing of rights of
rights to others. It has a lot of
importance to those of us who do family
research or who have produced works of
genealogical value.
Stay tuned.
New U. S. Genealogy News
A genealogy news feed is now
located in the right hand column of the
webpage for the Bulletin under Tags.
This will automatically change, so you
can keep going back for updates.
Don’t Wait For Your
Quarterly Newsletter
The contents of the newsletter are
posted as they come in on the Bulletin
webpage at http://woodtxgene.com/. The
purpose is to make society news and
genealogy tips available as soon as
possible. At the end of the quarter, these
posts are used in preparing the
newsletter.Your suggestions or
information for the newsletter
(announcements, research tips, links,
resources, suggestions, etc.) are needed
for the newsletter. You can submit them
from the webpage or by emailing to
Deason Hunt at netexas@gmail.com. On
the webpage, there are directions on how
members can post directly to the page.
Contact Us
WCGS (All postal mail): P.O. Box
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