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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>I need your help! Some of you know me through
my Oregon Pioneer website, some of you I have helped in the past, some of you I
have never met. Besides being webmaster for my Oregon Pioneer website, I
also am webmaster for several cemetery sites, including <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Lee</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Mission</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. In 1996
Sherrill Hochspeir, Jean Custer and myself researched and compiled a book on <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lee</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Mission</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> that was published
by the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society. A few years ago I joined the
board of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lee</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Mission</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
and put the website online so that it could be updated and kept updated.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Recently it came to my attention that a local
individual went onto my website, cut and pasted all of the information
including obituaries, notes, etc to her computer, added photos that she had
taken herself and donated it to Find-A-Grave as her own work. She also
abstracted the obituary information and donated it to the Oregon Gen Web.
It took Sherrill, Jean and I over five years of research, typing and compiling
of information to complete the publication. I was later to find out that
this was her pattern as she had already done the same thing with <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Salem</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Pioneer</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. Tracy
Saucy, Ferne Hellie and Addie Dyal Rickey with the help of others have been working
on that site for years.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Many of you know Tracy Saucy and the wonderful work
she does. She does all her own research, walks the cemeteries,
photographs them and seeks out additional information. But the bottom
line is, who is going to want to put years of work and research into a site
that someone can come along and cut and paste, donate and claim as their own
work. The fact that there are so many cemeteries to be done and the fact
that she only chooses those that are easily accessible online speaks volumes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>I have contacted all of the individuals in question and
quite frankly none of them appear to be willing to correct this injustice.
I am now asking each and every one of you who work on cemeteries or are
concerned about this type of blatant disregard for the work of others to
contact Find-A-Grave, put “Copyright” in the subject line and send
an email voicing your concerns to all of the administrators listed below.
Please mention the cemeteries in question and request that action be
taken. I would ask that you include in your letter a request that they
make available a special email address or link where copyright issues can be
reported and investigated. If you have others in your address books that
might be concerned by this issue, please contact them. I doubt that this
is a problem to only our area.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="mailto:jim@findagrave.com"
title="mailto:jim@findagrave.com">jim@findagrave.com</a>; <a
href="mailto:russ@findagrave.com" title="mailto:russ@findagrave.com">russ@findagrave.com</a>;
<a href="mailto:AJ@findagrave.com" title="mailto:AJ@findagrave.com">AJ@findagrave.com</a>;
<a href="mailto:katrina@kindagrave.com" title="mailto:katrina@kindagrave.com">katrina@kindagrave.com</a>;
<a href="mailto:info@findagrave.com" title="mailto:info@findagrave.com">info@findagrave.com</a>;
<a href="mailto:robert@findagrave.com" title="mailto:robert@findagrave.com">robert@findagrave.com</a>;
<a href="mailto:deb@findagrave.com" title="mailto:deb@findagrave.com">deb@findagrave.com;
info@findagravecom</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Thank you so much for your time,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Stephenie Flora<br>
<a href="http://www.oregonpioneers.com/ortrail.htm">www.oregonpioneers.com/ortrail.htm</a><br>
www.oregonpioneers.com/marion/LeeCem.htm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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