Is it permissible to use information from an early webpage?

Question

This is not my Blackwell family....                                                However, in searching for recent data on the Blackwell family I came across a website with an amazing amount of family information concerning not only the Blackwell family but so much other interesting information. This site was last updated in 2008.   I would like to share this page with more experienced genealogists.  I tried to contact the individual to obtain information to add some of the first person stories to WikiTree, however my e-mail to Mr. Austin came back as Undeliverable.

It would be a shame to lose the beautiful photos and family information on his website.  The creator of the website has also included a WPA interview transcription by Benjamin H. Blackwell.

How can we preserve this information and the first person accounts included here?   [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~oktxblackwell/index.html]

W.P.A. Indian Pioneer History Project [vol. # 8 pp 307 - 328   Blackwell, Benjamin H. Interview. 9803
Acelia F. Harris
Journalist
January 26, 1938
Interview with Benjamin H. Blackwell
507 North Hudson, Oklahoma City Oklahoma

 

Thank-you,

Judith

Answer 1

Since the WPA record is a  government produced document that information would not be copyrighted, however the transcription may be, not sure how that works. Try the Legal Genealogist - http://www.legalgenealogist.com/ .  The rest if the info on the site would be considered under copyright, you can reproduce the info (names, dates, places) and source it back to the page, however this is the bad part about using online stuff, it disappears.  If the site is saved on the Wayback Machine (https://archive.org/index.php) the chances are better that the material will remain available.  Sorry I can't be of more help.

Comments

Thank-you, I should have no problem finding the original and transcribing from that myself.  I have found them online before.  

I am delighted to learn of the Legal Genealogist and will visit that site as well.  

Judith

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Judith,

Rather than going through the painful process of transcribing the pages, you might want to create screenshots and save them on a word document.  That way you could refer to the information easily.

Are you a descendant of the family of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor?  My daughter graduated from William Smith College in Geneva, NY, which was the site of Geneva Medical College.  There's a beautiful statue of Elizabeth in the middle of the quad on campus.

Ginni Combs