My wife and I love history and genealogy of the family. Often, by the difficulty in finding published genealogical records in old rare books, sometimes self-published. We’d love to find the owners of copyright of these books and see if it would open the public domain or a permissive license. How can we find the owners of copyright, especially since most of the original authors have died? If we find the right holder, who must sign a release form allowing the contents or index family to participate freely on the Internet?
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I have had this problem myself. The only thing to do is use the
information to compile a new text. Make sure to add your own
information and credit the source of the bulk of your material.
Most of these family tree books are put out by the authors
without thought to profit. They just want to get the information
out there and maybe recoup some of their costs.