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A lot of people will spend their whole life collecting and putting together  
their family tree and won't share it with a living sole because they think its 
 all their hard work and no one else should have any of it. "Just let them  
go get their own and leave me alone" I wonder about these people because I 
think  they awfully selfish and self centered to be this way. Thank God my family 
is  not that way we share everything that we find and by doing so we have one 
of the  largest family trees around. after all its not just your family its 
the family  of every person in your family tree and they also have the right to 
the  information that you have collected. Remember you didn't invent it you 
collected  it from others who put it on paper for you. Wouldn't it be fun if the 
numerators  of the census decided that what they went out an collected was 
theirs and they  made the government buy it from them. If you want to write a 
family book  about your family and make it into a novel like my Aunt Charlotte 
did then this  is your work and you can do as you wish with it. Keep it hid 
away sell it or  just donate it to the family your choice. But when you collect 
data from all  over the country from public sources then that still belongs to 
all of your  family just because you put it all together doesn't make it yours 
forever on  until death do you part. My sister in law Nancy has collected 
data on my Davies  side and to this date has not let any of us have any of it she 
guarded it right  up to her death this summer. Well, now what will brother 
burn it all up or throw  it the trash or finely let us see what she has 
collected, who knows. At any rate  its wasn't her family it was ours and her kids and 
even they don't have copies  of it. What a waste of time to do all that no not 
share even one little bit with  the family. As I said before thank God that 
the rest of my family is not like  her. 
Well, that my opinion an its worth just about that much so lets just drop  
it.   
 
Walt  Davies
Cooper Hollow Farm
Monmouth, OR 97361
503 623-0460 

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