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In the spirit of sharing family history, you may use this material for your personal research but must respect the copyright herein explained. Facts of name, dates and places cannot be copyrighted, and you are free to use these basic facts from Winslett Chronicles or from my limited trees on Ancestry.com, My Heritage or Family Tree.

However, the descriptive narratives in Winslett Chronicles which collate and analyze those facts and any images are my creative work and are protected by copyright. I am releasing these materials under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International license. This license allows others to non-commercially use, remix and build upon my work and, although their new works must acknowledge my research and be non-commercial, they do not have to license their derivative works under the same terms.

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