The Find A Grave sale
The terms of use control The announcement this week that the popular website Find A Grave has been sold to Ancestry.com has prompted an outpouring of response from the genealogical community. On one side are the contributors, such as a reader who wrote: “I am a top...Find A Grave revisited
Updated terms of use In June of last year, all that could be said about terms of use at the popular website Find A Grave was… There weren’t any.1 What a difference a year makes. Because Find A Grave certainly has terms of use now, and they’re causing...More changes to Facebook’s ToS
Proposed changes “clarify” ad policy Genealogists — like millions and millions of other people — love and use Facebook. And — like millions and millions of other people — we’re not always very careful about how we use Facebook, or how we...Terms of use: Google Maps & Earth
Use, but don’t change, the maps Like most genealogists, reader Bill Smith is very conscious of the value of maps in his research. But, it occurred to him, there could be issues with using one particular type of map. He wants to use Google Maps to locate small...GenealogyBank permissions clarified
GenealogyBank terms of use updated The news site GenealogyBank.com has updated its terms of use. They’re not any better for most users but they’re a little clearer on why GenealogyBank is so restrictive in what it allows subscribers to do and they’re...FamilySearch: sharing is forever
FamilySearch terms of use It used to be, just a few short weeks ago, that the major emphasis at FamilySearch.org was the records it digitizes and makes available to its users. You would navigate to the website, and the very first thing you’d see would be the...Public library, not public domain
The launch of the Digital Public Library of America Yesterday saw the launch of one of the best initiatives for researchers the United States has ever seen: the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). As described by the DPLA itself, the project has three key...Copyright, terms of use and Pinterest
Next in an occasional series on copyright and terms of use Every so often, the subject comes up… what about Pinterest? Millions of people use the site — which describes itself as “a tool for collecting and organizing things you love” — and...Microsoft clip art on your blog?
The answer may surprise you It takes an awful lot to get The Legal Genealogist to like Microsoft but one of today’s questions from reader Lynda Peach, who’s launched a blog at idogenealogy.net, is going to come very close… Here’s what she asks:...Subscribe by Email
