No, you haven't stolen the census from ancestry.com, unless you're
posting copies of their census images somewhere else on the internet.

It sounds like you have added value to the information at ancestry.com by
transcribing the information.  That work is your own.

Sue

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:14:29 -0500 [log in to unmask] writes:
> First of all, even though whatever I am doing is not for profit, in
> the
> context of this discussion I realize now I *stole* the original
> census
> images I've painstakingly transcribed, by way of my paid
> ancestry.com
> subscription... yes?
>
> And then, I didn't like the official "GenWeb Census Format" that
> extends
> data beyond the computer screen 'n formatted my own transcriptions
> for
> easy use that DO fit the screen.  Comparing some completely
> insensible
> surnames with local marriage license lists, early land records,
> later
> census listings, bios, and in a few cases personal knowledge, I
> have
> typed up the entries with recognizable (& computer searchable)
> spellings,
> sometimes disregarding the enumerator's artfully scripted but
> phonetic
> concoctions.  (I don't always like that when "other people"
> transcribe
> things adding their own [unbracketed] conclusions...even if they DO
> know
> for absolutely sure...)  You see?  Yet mispellings aren't computer
> findable and I was first of all doing this for my own personal use.
>

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