It has come to my attention that numerous persons have “borrowed” the tombstone pictures from www.carrollsorner.net  & posted them on www.findagrave.com  under their name.  I have never objected to anyone using anything from my web site as long as they give appropriate acknowledgement as to their source or credit where credit is due. However, posting these pictures under their name gives the impression to those who don’t know that the "borrower" photographed the tombstones when indeed they did not.

I have gone to a LOT of trouble to obtain most of these pictures. Even though I am not a morning person there have been times when I have dragged my body out of bed very early to visit a cemetery so as to get the sunlight at the right angle. I have endured blazing hot summer sun & bitter winter cold.  Have also braved poison ivy, poison oak, chiggers, ticks, mosquitoes, snakes, pigs, horses, a goat, crawdads, spiders, been bitten by a fire ant & been chased by cows. Trekked through shoulder high weeds, crawled through thick brush, been scratched by briars, climbed through or over barbed wire fences, climbed trees & even fell in a creek once. All to get at & photograph those long lost cemeteries & tombstones to preserve them for posterity.  Therefore I don’t feel that I’m being selfish, unfair or unreasonable for being upset when someone posts my pictures under their name.

If people continue abusing my hard work I will regretfully be forced to put www.carrollscorner.net  in lock-down so the only way anyone can use anything from my site is to contact me personally.  I am currently placing my tombstone pictures from www.carrollscorner.net on www.findagrave.com  under my name. Anyone who has posted any “borrowed” pictures from www.carrollscorner.net under their name is being asked to remove them as soon as possible.  Thank you.