I've been entering the essentials and what details show the person's life history, such as immigration, land purchases, offices held, etc. Everything is documented with the references linked to each event in the person's life.
In some cases, I have saved web pages with more extensive notes and documentation, so I have those references documented even if I haven't entered it in my program. When the books are available for download from Google Books or Archive.org I give the URL as well as the bibliographic entry.
I've also got some privately published books and manuscripts that were uploaded to the web as PDFs that I need to find out how I might be able to share without violating the copyrights. In some cases the authors are dead and I don't know who to contact about the rights.
At least one is no longer on the internet - the little church whose history it was lost their website. I had downloaded the history for Mom and printed a hard copy for her (an ancestor started the church in the 1820s and the history of the church had a lot of information about his life). I think that a member of the church had set up the website and uploaded the history for their anniversary but no one was prepared to maintain it once that was over.
Another one about one of the ancestors, when it came out Mom bought a copy for each of us kids. Now the author is no longer printing them but he uploaded a PDF. I think it would be legitimate to share that since he did put it out without restrictions. I only want it available for my nieces and nephews to reference - I am not going to distribute copies outside the family or sell them. Since a lot of the source material for the book came from Mom (without him acknowledging her assistance!) and her aunts and uncles using his book as a reference is for ease of letting other people have access to the information.
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