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All pages on Olive Tree Genealogy sites and blogs are copyright 1996 to present. All rights are reserved. Pages may be freely linked to but not duplicated in any fashion. You cannot copy and publish my pages in any format but you may use the facts contained on these pages for your own personal research. Facts cannot be copyrighted.

Facts obtained from this site should be used with proper credit to Lorine McGinnis Schulze and TheGenealogySpot.com. If you wish to provide a proper source citation for information obtained from a website, please feel free to copy the proper format given below. Change the name and URL of the site to reflect the correct site or blog [Source for format is from Evidence: Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian by Elizabeth Shown Mills. Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland. 1997]:

TheGenealogySpot.com, online <http://www.TheGenealogySpot.com/>, Lorine McGinnis Schulze, webmaster <olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com>, copied day/month/year (where day/month/year is replaced by the date you obtained the information)

Using the work of others without acknowledging the source is plagiarism. In scholarly research plagiarism is considered unethical and dishonest.

Copyright infringement is entirely different from plagiarism. Excessive use of someone else’s original work, even if the source is acknowledged, may be a copyright infringement and you may be liable to legal action.

None of the following may be duplicated and/or published in any format without my written consent:
The selection and arrangement of facts and ideas (the appearance, overall layout, and visual presentation of the facts/ideas) located on this web site or any portion thereof. My notes, notations, and original research either on their own or added to facts as footnotes or inline notesThe original expression that I have used for the facts and ideas of this website The HTML Code (i.e. page layout) for any page or portion thereof. My original graphics

None of the following may be duplicated and/or published in any format without my written consent:

The selection and arrangement of facts and ideas (the appearance, overall layout, and visual presentation of the facts/ideas) located on this web site or any portion thereof. My notes, notations, and original research either on their own or added to facts as footnotes or inline notesThe original expression that I have used for the facts and ideas of this website The HTML Code (i.e. page layout) for any page or portion thereof. My original graphics

Some material on this site is copyright to others and used here with their permission or is under the fair usage proviso

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