Elizabeth S. Mills, EVIDENCE: CITATION AND ANALYSIS FOR THE FAMILY
HISTORIAN (Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997), is an excellent
discussion of what good scholarly work requires in order to establish
its accuracy and to provide readers with confidence in the research and
analysis of the author.

It is always proper and decent to give credit where credit is due to
those people who went before us and found facts or made other
contributions to how we understand and interpret the information that we
develop and use in our own research.

It is almost never property or decent to copy large swathes of some
other person's work, even if proper credit is given. Take credit and
responsibility for what you do and give credit where it is due; and
remember that anything anybody puts on the web or prints in a book or
journal can be, and might be, appropriated to some other purpose.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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