Below is some emails discussing what seems to problem and I felt that you should be aware before anyone spent their money on a site that seems to have taken other peoples work and now charging for it. I went to one of the addresses listed below to see what was in there and of course couldn't get in without paying. Then I used the other address for "what's new" and accessed it. Then I scrolled down to Arkansas marriages and was taken to someones personal web site that I'm sure is not aware they are now linked to a "pay site" I have written to this person to inform them how they are linked to this pay site. The interesting part is that their personal genealogy had nothing to do with Arkansas marriages I thought I would be viewing. It looks like to me its just someone in to make a quick buck. We on this list freely share our information with each other and if you have a personal web site I don't think you would want someone making a profit on your work, I wouldn't. Ann list manager ********************************************** Hi Ann, There seems to be an uproar over a website, perhaps taking money under false pretenses or something like that. I have not subscribed to the site myself so I know nothing firsthand. Larry Stephens of @indiana.edu is asking for people to write him if they have had dealings with this web site. Since you have two or three lists, this might be worth watching. I received the message below from TXHunt-L. Raymond Greetings, listers. I received this on another list I subscribe to and though I should send it to all of the lists I moderate for your information. Vince Leibowitz Listowner -----Original Message----- From: Vanessa Burzynski [mailto:burzynsk@swbell.net] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 12:44 AM To: GERMAN-TEXAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GER-TEX] Genealogy Scam My apologies to everyone for sending that "messed up" message previously. I should have known to cut and paste first. My mistake. Here is the message again and hopefully you can read the whole thing. Again, sorry if you receive this on more than one list but felt it was important enough to be forwarded to everyone. I am not in any way promoting this website or any other website. Vanessa ----- Original Message ----- Subj: Genealogy scam Date: 09/03/2000 6:30:57 AM Mountain Daylight Time From: plfleming@shelbynet.net (Phyllis Fleming) I received this message after it was forwarded to the INGENWEB state coordinator: About 2 weeeks ago we received a complaint from an Archives submitter that her materials were found on a genealogy subscription service: www.familydiscovery.com The submitter was able to do a little digging and found that they were linking to her files housed on her server, but shrink-wrapped inside a frame so it appears to be THEIR work. About 10 days ago, to investigate this, I signed up with familydiscovery. To date, I have not received a user id or password to get inside. The registered owners of the web site gave bogus telephone numbers in their registration. One number goes to a recorded message line; the other to a carpet company. Some of the e-mail adds on their web site bounce. Standing on the outside and looking through the window, it appears that several folks' web sites have been prize-mined: http://www.familydiscovery.com/whatsnew.htm The Storey Co., IA and the Washington Co., PA stuff seem to come from USGenWeb sites. Some of the other IA and NC stuff seems to come from non-USGW sites. None of the materials seem to be housed at either rootsweb or usgennet. If anyone out there is or has been a member of familydiscovery -- or has been ripped off by them, I ["Joy Fisher" jfisher@ucla.edu>] would like to hear from you. Permission is granted to forward this message. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= wally@calweb.com ==== GERMAN-TEXAN Mailing List ==== http://www.hal-pc.org/~dcrane/txgenweb/gtwelcom.htm contains information on how to subscribe or unsubscribe from the German-Texan list. ==== TXHUNT Mailing List ==== Don't forget! The Hunt County GenWeb Project Home Page has moved to http://www.geocities.com/countyofhunt