Thomas County Georgia Look-ups
Please read the following two sections before asking a volunteer on this page for a lookup.
The USGenWeb's Official Copyright Policy:
The USGenWeb Project will not tolerate any copyright violations. Lookup
requests should be limited to one name, or perhaps two if it is a married
couple. Information given should be minimal, for example:
If it is a
cemetery lookup, the information should be the name of the cemetery and the
dates on the headstone.
Please do not ask for "everybody with X surname" or
an entire family group, or for hardcopies to be mailed; the volunteers have
been asked not to comply with such requests.
Lookups can extend to
searching the Copyrighted Material to determine if the Material would be
helpful to the requester in their research. Should the Copyrighted Material
prove useful, the Volunteer can provide the authors address and ordering
information.
The 4 Golden Rules of Copyright:
1.Material older than 1921 are absolutely safe.
2.Relaying FACTS is
OK (This does not mean copying)
3.If the use of material created by someone
else diminishes the market value of that person's work, then the copyright has
been violated.
4.Getting written (not email) permission from the publisher
is the surest way to ensure that you are not violating copyright law.
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Please be sure to put "THOMAS CO. LOOKUP" in the subject line when requesting lookups!!
If you have resources for Thomas County and would like to
volunteer to help with limited look-ups, please e-mail me at
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