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<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV>Well, that my opinion an its worth just about that much so lets just drop
it. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B>Walt
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