> The following e mail was sent to a mailing list I'm on. This type of behavior is inexcusable. I wrote to ancestryweb. com and sent a copy of the letter to the person in question. Their e mail addresses are on the website below. I think we all should write and protest this behavior, as it violates a legitimate genealogist's "code of ethics", so to speak! It could happen to any of us who exchange information! > > Nancy > > **************************************************************************** ************** > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lynn McCandless <lynnintx@texas.net> > To: <MSPONTOT-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 3:02 PM > Subject: [MSPONTOT-L] Stealing Genealogy and Selling it... > > > > It has come to my attention that a person has taken some of the > > genealogy that I shared with him several years ago and put it on CD and > > is now selling it. I feel that I have been taken by this person who I > > believe does not know how to do research and is just using all the > > Seago/Sego lines to get info for his CD. His webpage which I found thru > > Gendex is: http://www.ancestryweb.com/ > > He is selling my family research on CD at > > http://www.ancestryweb.com/genweb/sego/ > > I have tried to email him but he does not answer my email. > > > > How would all of you feel if researchers did not share info and people > > like this will drive researchers to do that. How would you feel to > > learn that a person had betrade you like he has done me? Needless to > > say, some of the info was incorrect as I did not have all the > > documentation done on the lines at that time and I did find some errors > > in my work. So incorrect info will get past along to people who want > > the easy way out of research. > > Well, I now have this off my chest as I have been boiling all week about > > this. > > -- > > Lynn Appling McCandless > > Please visit my webpages: > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lynn/ > > send mailto:lynnintx@texas.net > > > > > > > > ==== MSPONTOT Mailing List ==== > > Do you have any old photos of historical places or an old class photo that > others may be interested in seeing? You can make a photocopy and send to > Debbie Anderson 3071 Newmarket Dr. Memphis, TN 38134 I will see that they > get scanned in and placed on the web site. > > > > >