Send an e-mail to Darrel R. Bell, if you have material you'd be willing to share, or know of books available on Marion County.

Rules for Lookup Volunteers

Volunteers may do unlimited lookups if and only if:
1. The lookup volunteer is the actual author and copyright holder of the publication.
2. The lookup volunteer is using primary source documents ... whether they are treking to the courthouse or using their own xeroxed copies of public domain documents.
3. The lookup volunteer has written permission from the author / copyright holder to use their publication for lookups.
Volunteers may be able to make certain limited scope lookups in copyrighted publications under the "fair use" provisions of existing law.
Potential volunteers are encouraged to review the explanations of copyright protection, especially the "fair use" provisions, available elsewhere on the Web.

Rules for Lookup Requests

Include the following in your e-mail:
- Subject: Marion County Look-up Request - SURNAME(S) [CAPITALIZE so they will be easier to recognize - if more than one, please list alphabetically] [put this in the subject of your e-mail message & the rest in the body]
- Your Name, and
- Your e-mail address.
Mention the name of the book in your message.
- Our volunteers aren't mind-readers &
- they may not remember which books they volunteered for.
Make your requests for lookup limited in scope.
- "Tell me everything about the Smiths" is probably too broad. J
Please be polite and thank our volunteer (for most this advice is unnecessary, but some ... - forget).
- Our volunteers are giving us a precious item - their time &
- they deserve our thanks for saving us a similarly precious item - our own time.
- [After doing genealogy for over fifty years, I am keenly aware of just how precious time is to all of us. We only have a small amount of it here to do our work. The stories and lives of our ancestors prove that. - Ron Dailey]

[IMPORTANT] -- Researchers should not ask, nor may lookup volunteers offer, to violate copyright laws in responding to requests for lookups in any copyrighted material. --

Lookup Offers

My Special Thanks goes to these Lookup Volunteers. They are the soul of a website like ours. Their offer to do lookups, sometimes to perfect strangers, breathes life into what otherwise would be nothing more than an inert bulletin board. - Ron Dailey, Webmaster

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