Apropos of my posting re Devon Archives - I found this interesting because I'm going through the 1841 Census for the village I live in, tabulating the information with a view to outting it on the village website. Does anyone know of any legal implications?
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You can replicate the information given in census - the information is already in the public domain.
Best to devise your own format for presenting this information - I believe it is replication of the original images that could cause problems for you.
JayJanet in Yorkshire
Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree
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I also think you would be well advised to put something on the page along the lines of
Hang on a minute while I find it in someone's signature :D
Here it is:
Information given in this posting is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk unless otherwise stated
Remembering: Cuthbert Gregory 1889 - 1916, George Arnold Connelly 1886 - 1917, Thomas Lowe Davenport 1890 - 1917, Roland Davenport Farmer 1885 - 1916, William Davenport Sheffield 1879 - 1915, Cuthbert Gregory 1918 - 1944
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Originally posted by maggie_4_7 View PostDoes that also include reproduction of the images as well as transcription?Uncle John - Passed away March 2020
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Originally posted by maggie_4_7 View PostDoes that also include reproduction of the images as well as transcription?
Transcripts are okay, because the transcriber is devising their own format to record the information.
JayJanet in Yorkshire
Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree
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Originally posted by maggie_4_7 View PostDoes that also include reproduction of the images as well as transcription?
Any image available today will probably be taken from microfilms taken in the 50s and later. These microfilms have a later copyright date than the original census enumerator's books (which are out of copyright).
If you had access to the original enumerator's returns and scanned or filmed those then you could publish those scans or films.
Cheers
GuyGuy passed away October 2022
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Originally posted by Guy View PostThat depends on when the images were produced.
Any image available today will probably be taken from microfilms taken in the 50s and later. These microfilms have a later copyright date than the original census enumerator's books (which are out of copyright).
If you had access to the original enumerator's returns and scanned or filmed those then you could publish those scans or films.
Cheers
Guy
So its not the actual census its the images that have since been reproduced from them by the NA.
Thanks Guy.
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