Thanks Jim and Julia, for the quick response. You saved me from finding out that they are a new type of scam. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Bridges" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [BRIDGES-L] Fw: Greetings fellow Genealogist.... > > << 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 >