And when you scroll to bottom and click on "about us" you get the 404 message. Lynda Durfee Dotbdot@aol.com wrote: > > --part1_83.6000f3.26e98276_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Found this on the Barbour Co., W VA list. Does anyone have any idea what > this is about? Has anyone had anything like this happen to them? D.H. > > > Resent-Sender: WVBARBOU-L-request@rootsweb.com > > I received this and several similar ones on various mailing lists. I'm not > sure if there's a scam going on or not, but it might be prudent to > investigate before plunking down your hard-earned cash to join. - Curt > > <quote> > 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. > > <unquote> > > --part1_83.6000f3.26e98276_boundary-- > > ==== BLANKENSHIP Mailing List ==== > Judith Manley has her BLANKENSHIP's online at http://Yelnam.tripod.com/. Take a look!