In a message dated 11/04/2000 1:28:35 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Anyone know anything about this Family Discovery Website? At $59.99 it sounds good, but do they really have the database they are describing? Please respond if you have any personal knowledge about them. >> I may be wrong, but last month, others were talking about a new website that charges, and then links you to sites that are free. That may be the one. Julia

> << Anyone know anything about this Family Discovery Website? At $59.99 it > sounds good, but do they really have the database they are describing? > I may be wrong, but last month, others were talking about a new website that > charges, and then links you to sites that are free. That may be the one. > Julia You are correct, Julia. Several months ago the GenWeb Project coordinators for a number of counties were up in arms over the site - apparently it linked to a number of GenWeb pages, on which data was contained - in a frame - so that it looked like people were accessing the Family Discovery site as opposed to a free GenWeb site. One Family Discovery apparently does is organize and structure the various web sites that one would be interested in - and it is for this organizing effort that one pays the membership fee, not the data, which is not owned by Family Discovery. Jim Bridges St. Clair Co. IL GenWeb Project Coordinator and Bridges researcher e-mail: [email protected] http://www.frontiernet.net/~jimbridg/stclair.htm