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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>The internet has been a fantastic tool for genealogy. It has allowed
people to communicate and share information from different areas of the world.
Genealogists are a sharing group with a mindset than every time they help
someone make a 'connection' it will bring them closer to connecting with
information on 'their' ancestors!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> Stephenie Flora is one of the forerunners in using the internet and
the web to help others. What a shock to find her work posted with another's
name attached. This is blatant plagiarism. Stephanie Flora deserves the
recognition for her work and to allow someone to 'lift'/copy the information
off of Stephanie's website <a href="http://www.oregonpioneers.com/ortrail.htm">www.oregonpioneers.com/ortrail.htm</a>
which has been up for almost ten years (and maybe longer)should not be allowed.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>LEE</span></font> MISSION CEMETERY</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> In 1996 Sherrill Hochspeir, Jean Custer and Stephanie Flora
researched and compiled a book on </span></font>Lee Mission Cemetery that was
published by the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society. A few years ago Stephanie
Flora joined the board of Lee Mission Cemetery and put the website online so
that she could keep it updated.</p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>SALEM</span></font> PIONEER CEMETERY </p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> Tracy Saucy, Ferne Hellie and Addie Dyal Rickey with the help of
others have been working on that site for years.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>It is the same person that stole both the information on </span></font>Lee
Mission Cemetery and Salem Pioneer Cemetery. It is not accidental. There was
not a great deal of research put into the stealing of someone else's work. The
individual never contacted the 'webmaster' of the sites to ask permission to
submit the information as their own work. There is no evidence that the submitter
has actually done any REAL searching other than this type of stealing.</p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>It is people like this that do not use the information to point
themselves to sources to verify information that cause reliable sources to dry
up. It takes the heart out of someone to have your work that you have put so
much of yourself into stolen and posted. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Viola Rae (Stacey) Kassing</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Researching </span></font>Eastern Oregon</p>
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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></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Thank you so much for your
time,</span></font></p>
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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</span></font></p>
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