Copyright
The entire content of the website entitled McCartney's Journeys in Genealogy (http://www.geomacc.com), hereinafter known as 'Journeys', is protected by copyright under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (opens a pdf) . The unauthorized use, reproduction or copying of any material from 'Journeys' will be in violation of said copyright.
All articles on 'Journeys' have been written by the webmaster or are contributions by genealogical researchers interested in a McCartney genealogical line. No publication of such information as is found in the articles and/or postings shall be incurred without the express written permission of the webmaster or the person responsible for the posting. The webmaster can be contacted at george@geomacc.com. The person responsible for each posting is listed with his or her email address at the top of that particular posting.
Researchers may copy or download any of the postings for their personal research and/or for future reference. They are not authorized to publicly display or disseminate to third parties any of the data on 'Journeys' without the permission of the author of such information. If such permission is granted, proper credit must be given to the original author. Portions of the articles on 'Journeys' that were written by the webmaster may be used provided proper credit is given and, if used in websites, a link back to the original article on 'Journeys' is provided.
Commercial use of any of the content of this site is strictly prohibited.
Copyright Information
If you would like more information about copyrighting, there is a website that gives a very general, not nation specific, but informative explanation. 'Journeys' is not affiliated in any way with the website. It is listed here only for reference.
www.whatiscopyright.org (opens a new window).
Reciprocal Links
Creating links to any pages on 'Journeys' does not require permission. However, if your site is family safe, please contact the webmaster with the URL of the site on which the link is to be shown. If the site is relevant to general genealogical research or to specific McCartney research the webmaster of 'Journeys' will create a reciprocal link on the 'Journeys' link page.
If your site contains pornography, promotes racial or ethnic hatred, gambling, drug abuse, smoking or alcoholic beverage usage or is not family safe, DO NOT link to 'Journeys' nor request that 'Journeys' link to your site. Further, 'Journeys' will not link to sites which cause pop-up or pop-under advertisements to appear in the visitor's browser. Nor will we link to sites that have excessive advertising banners.
Legal Information
No guarantees are made by the webmaster or any person contributing to 'Journeys' regarding the accuracy, validity, completeness or reliability of the data presented or contained within the site. The viewer is responsible for determining the validity of the data in any posting or article. This may be done by contacting the researcher responsible for the posting. That researcher's name and email address are listed at the top of the posting.
Neither the webmaster nor the contributors to the site shall be held liable for improper or incorrect use of any information originating from 'Journeys' articles or postings. The webmaster of 'Journeys' disclaims any responsibility for the deletion or failure to post any information submitted. Further, the webmaster will delete postings if, after checking, it is found that the poster's email address has become invalid.
Links to other sites are provided on various pages of 'Journeys'. The webmaster of 'Journeys' has no control over the content of those sites. The site was reviewed by the webmaster and its content was pertinent to genealogical research at the time the link was placed on 'Journeys'. Subsequent changes to the linked-to site may have taken it out of the scope of original intent. The webmaster is not responsible for the content of or changes to those sites. In addition, the webmaster of 'Journeys' will periodically test all links on 'Journeys' to determine their validity. Any site which no longer exists on the World Wide Web or on which the content has changed to take it out of the genealogical or research categories will be removed from the 'Journeys' link pages.
Graphics representing validation services 'Journeys' has used and graphics of awards that 'Journeys' has received from various awards programs are copyrighted by the issuer and are used on 'Journeys' with their permission. Copying, linking to or using those graphics from 'Journeys' pages in any way is strictly prohibited.
Credits
Authorship
The authors of all contributed articles have been credited where the article appears. We appreciate the time taken to write and present the articles and thank the authors for sharing their knowledge.
Graphics and Photographs
The background graphic used on all pages of this site is a celtic knot. It is from Absolute Web Graphics Archive with permission. It is titled dgren006.jpg. They offer a wide variety of free web graphics. We thank them for their generosity.
The two ship photographs used in the webmaster's family pages, the Columbia
and the Lusitania, were purchased from
The Ellis Island
Foundation.
We thank them for maintaining so much great genealogical data.
Photographs used on the webmaster's family pages are the property of the
webmaster or members of his family. Other photographs used in the research
queries are the property of the researchers who posted the queries and are
used on this site with permission.
No use of any nature, whether electronic or printed, of the photographs, graphics or images on 'Journeys' shall be made either by copying or directly linking to them. No authorization to use or link to any of the photographs, graphics or images will be granted.
Roll-over Script
The image rollover JavaScript on the colophon page is open source code developed by Chris Poole. The source code is featured on Dynamic Drive. It was used on this site as it was written.
New Window Script
The JavaScript that allows external links to open in new windows while still validating the code as XHTML Strict was developed by Kevin Yank and published in an article titled "New-Window Links in a Standards-Compliant World". The article was published on the web on 4 March 2003. The code was easily installed on this site virtually unchanged.
