Hi cousins, As I was writing to you, another warning came in - this forwarded from another list: About two weeks someone received a complaint from an Archives submitter (and I don't know which Archives) 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, the sender of this information signed up with familydiscovery. To date, she had 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. One of the materials seem to be housed at either rootsweb or gennet. If anyone out there is or has been a member of familydiscovery - or has been ripped off by them I ("Joy Fisher" [email protected] ) would like to hear from you. Permission is granted to foreward this message. - Joy Fisher- ~~~~~~~~~~~~ If I find out more, I'll let you know. Please do the same. We need to stay on top of this so none of us gets ripped off. Once again, happy Sunday to you all! :) Colleen