Copyright and License Policy

Content (text and images) contained on the pages of this site (https://kendallkin.org/) are furnished for the free use of those engaged in researching their family origins. Any commercial use of these pages without the consent of the content owner(s) is prohibited. To that end, unless noted otherwise, content on this site is © 1997-2025 The Estate of Elmer Dickson Creative Commons License and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License

If you have questions or information regarding copyright or other intellectual property rights for content you find here, please use the Contact page.

What is not licensed?

Some pages of this site may use third party content that is licensed under different terms. Where that use is not a fair use, the different license terms of that content are either indicated or the content is acknowledged to be “Used with permission.” Before reusing or adapting material marked with "Used with Permission" it is important that you get permission from the rights owner before making any new use of this material.

The ILGenWeb Project and The USGenWeb Project logos and other brand features are not included in this license. Please visit/contact https://www.illinoisgenweb.org/ and https://usgenweb.org/, respectively, regarding use of their materials.

The software (source and/or object code) used to implement the https://kendallkin.org/ web site is not included in this license.

Content linked from a page is not covered by the Creative Commons license unless specifically noted.

No Known Copyright Restrictions

Some content is marked with "No Known Copyright Restrictions". This indicates that I, county coordinator, am unaware of any current copyright restrictions on the material, either because I own the copyright, or the term of copyright has expired, or because no evidence has been found that copyright restrictions apply. However, I cannot guarantee that no such restrictions apply nor am I in a position to provide advice about the reuse or adaptation of said material.

Therefore, before reusing or adapting material marked with "No Known Copyright Restrictions" it is important that you carry out an independent review of applicable law.  Where necessary, you should get permission from the rights owner before making any new use of this material.

Attribution Required

Proper attribution is required when you reuse or adapt content that appears on a page made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License (but do not imply an official endorsement or explicit association with me or this web site, unless I've provided explicit written consent, via email or a paper letter). Please see the complete attribution requirements under section 4 of the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US Legal Code.

Here are some suggestions for how you might format the attributions in your work:

Attribution of Exact Reproductions

When your online work contains exact reproductions, in whole or in part, of CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licensed content on this site, please include the following paragraph along with a link back to the source page: 

Portions of this page are reproduced from work created and shared by Elmer Dickson and used according to the terms described in the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/deed.en_US


Attribution of Adapted Versions 

When your online work contains modified text or images, in whole or in part, of CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licensed content on this site, please include the following paragraph along with a link back to the source page: 

Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by Elmer Dickson and used according to the terms described in the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/deed.en_US

Again, please link back to the original source page so that readers can refer there for more information. This is even more important when the content has been modified.

Other media

If the reproduction or adaptation is produced using a medium that does not support hypertext links, such as a book, recording, or video, please include a written or spoken attribution in the spirit of the messages above.

Credit

Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by Mike Bland and used according to the terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License. Source: https://mike-bland.com/policies.html (circa Sep-2013).

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