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Thanks for your response.
I actually don't know how to directly address a Copyright Editor. They seem to have been busy lately. I had been having a few remarks back and forth about the practice of not allowing pasting of anything in a post. I took the impression that Rootschat equated that ability with actual copyright infringement. I voiced my opinion on that. The moderator indicated the practice has been successfull in preventing copyright infringment, said I had a right to my opinion, said there were other open copyright threads and locked that one. Rootschat policy on copyrights indicates it is the posters responsibility to not infringe on copy rights on others. I would have posted again the actual words but I am not allowed to paste it and won't take the time to retype everthing I might want to add to a post. In addition I was interested in how a negative is proven, i.e., how do you prove that not allowing pasting reduces anything other than finger strain. You could get 100% compliance with the copyright protection by not allowing anyone to post anything.

I have been called to task for copyright violation previously so I have become sensitized to the overreaching of the board in their effort to avoid copyright infringement accusations. Today I made a post and as part of that post I tried to paste a sentence that had absolutely NOTHING to do with copyright issues. The system would not permit to paste it or anything else. Since when is pasting anything prima facea evidence of copyright violation?? No LOL on this, it is an involvement that is not warranted and certainly not desired. At some point accumulating hassles make limited usefullness of a site not worth the bother.

Hello, I finally got a copy of Walter Hallett's birth cert. to add to his wedding cert. His father was John and his mother was Harriett. Neither document gives her maiden name. I am tending to think Harriett Houldsworth noted above is his mother. The 1881 Whitehaven, Cumberland census shows a Harriett Houldsworth, born 1840, with a son Walter, born 1864, and a daughter Sarah Elizabeth Houldsworth?, born 1868, all living in household of Alfred Hallett, born 1859, and Agness, born 1859, and their daughter Mary H., born 1881.  The 1861 census for Gate Fulford shows the household of a Robert, born 1794, and Ann, born 1790, Hallett with a daughter {maybe in-law} Harriett, born 1840, with her daughter Matilda, born 1854, and son Alfred, born 1860.
I found the above Robert as a widow in 1871 Yorkshire census but I have not found Harriett in 1871 - yet. I am tending to think these are the correct people - or is that wishfull thinking at this point??

Hi,
I have been showing my possible Griffith as being born in 1831 in Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, Wales with quite younger sibilings David 1854 and Rees 1858. I show his father possibly as William c. 1809 in Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, Wales. I show a wife for William as Elenor born 1825 so she may have been mother of Griffiths half sibings but not him.

Hello,
Does your Griffith Rees have a daughter named Catherine? "My" Catherine married Evan Elias who was born in Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire. They had children Cecelia, David, Lydia and Maria. Marriage certificate shows Catherine's father as Griffith Rees. I have notes that show his wife possibly as Margaret Richards and Griffith's parents possibly as William and Elenor who had children, Griffith, Rees and David. Does any of this match the info you have on Griffith??