for years i have researched our spears family line. in 1998 our cousin hollie and i meet via the internet carrie vance and another cousin in tulsa oklahoma. they were researching the reynolds line at this time and had no idea that they were tied into the spears. so being nice hollie and i gave them all the work that we had accumulated and got them straightened out on their reynolds ancestor which they didnt even have correctly at that time. since then our work along with other contributions of the family has been pasted on the internet along with other undocumented work, which now has made a jumbled mess of the spears family. it took me almost a year to get carrie vance to remove living family members from the internet, which i was terribly concerned over identity theft. many of her notes were my personal notes on my family. others have had the same problem. since all of this took place i have no longer been so willing to share what i have, and this saddens me, although i! continue to work on our spears family line with documentation. i am sorry if i have offended others but i do not appreciate what has transpired with carrie vance today i was looking at her 1900 census of Newton Co Arkansas that she has posted, where she has added her own notes to the side which I have found mistakes, along with the 1910 census. I let her know that my Great Grandfather was never referred to as Billy Spears; his name being William Riley Spears, and the following is the response that I recieved from her. Over the last two years I have recieved many "nasty" emails from her and it has me greatly disturbed. I am sorry to include the family in this but feel that you should know what type of person you are dealing with when you have contact with Carrie Vance. Also beware that most of her work is that of others and there are many mistakes in it, due to no true documentation on her behalf. In my files on my computer it states to whom donated information on that line of the family. I give credit to your work, just not to mine. ----- Original Message ----- From: CuznCarri@aol.com To: wspears@eritter.net Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 7:11 PM Subject: Back Off Listen you pill of crap....I have done nothing to you. You got information from Me and you gave me NOTHING. I am sick and tired of your childish game. Grow UP Windi....and in case you didn't know....most of the people that go to the Spears Reunion think your a nasty mean person....all your complaining and unwillingness to help only shows the true you. Leave me alone and drop DEAD. www.cuzncarri.com