ALL GEDCOM DATABASE INFORMATION contained within this project, is considered to be Public Domain Information by our Federal Government.  U.S. Copyright Law does not protect this type of data, only the presentation of it.  This is an important point for genealogists, because it means that data such as Names, Dates & Places can not be copyright protected.  Therefore, you can not legally block any of this data from public viewing.

GEDCOM is the GEnealogical Data COMmunication standard that was established by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  It's recommended that you reference the Wikipedia Encyclopedia webpage at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM for a detailed explanation of what a database of this type actually represents. 

A GEDCOM Database CAN NOT NORMALLY BE POLICED.  You should expect its content to be incomplete, contain inaccuracies & typo errors.  Attempting to make permanent record changes to a GEDCOM Database, isn't worth the effort -- because the incorrect info will simply continue to be merged into this database over & over.  Also, this webpage simply represents a historical snapshot / image of the Project's 01-Dec-2006 archived issue.

In Jan-2004 Herman Geschwin gave Paul M Kankula a copy of this issue and requested that it be made available for on-line for non-profit use.