Hi Listers I received the following notice on the TATE-L genealogy list and I thought it would be worth sharing. Jean > ************************************************* > X-Message: #1 > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 05:37:06 +0300 > From: Lloyd Neilsen <lloydi@ubtanet.com> > To: TATE-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <3AB570D0.A57@ubtanet.com> > Subject: [TATE-L] Re: [NHROCKIN] Genealogy for Profit. A declaration of > WAR! > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi everyone. this came as a message from the listowner for the > Rockingham, New Hamspshire list that I belong to. I thought everyone > ought to see what is going on. Mr. Marston has asked that we send this > along to the lists we belong to so I am doing so. Please read the whole > message to see what is going on. I think at the very least we ought to > take it as a warning and a reminder that not all we find is correct > information and just use it as a tool to look further. > > Lee Neilsen in Eastern Utah > <A HREF="mailto:lloydi@ubtanet.com">lloydi@ubtanet.com</A> > ************************* > Dick Marston wrote: > > Listers: > > I have naively included a link to GenForum for those wishing to post and > respond to Rockingham and Marston surname queries. Furthermore, I have > innocently posted several responses on those forums. Today, I have amended > the link on Rockingham's Queries Index Page to read as follows: > > **If you want still another place to search and post, try the Rockingham > county message board on [ genforum.genealogy.com/nh/rockingham/ ] WARNING!! > Any information which you share on GenForum's message boards may be copied > by Genealogy.com [/FamilyTreeMaker.com] and sold by them for profit either > as data included on a monthly/annual subscription or as a CD for purchase. > Much of this information is totally unreliable. Caveat emptor [Buyer > beware]. In order to see what, if any, information Genealogy.com has > acquired from your voluntary contributions, you will first need to > subscribe to their service available to paying members only.** > > I am SO angry I could spit!! Until I started checking up on this fiasco > about my father's pedigree, I had NO clue that Genealogy.com was doing > this. I want to declare WAR! I can't get through to their leaders, but I > sure would like to get through to their potential customers and unwitting > voluntary contributors. > > Please feel free to copy and paste [or send] this warning wherever, or to > whomever, you think might do the most good. You may post it as your own > message or as a quote from me, whichever you prefer. Your help will be > greatly appreciated. > -- > **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT**********

At 04:55 PM 03/22/2001, JAYEWHEEL@aol.com wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >Hi Listers > >I received the following notice on the TATE-L genealogy list and I thought >it >would be worth sharing. > >Jean >(snip) **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********** Hi Jean. Thanks for the forward. I saw this a few days ago, but can't remember if I sent it to the BROYLES List or not. Don't think I did. It got my dander up too! I've never been an FTM fan, and the more the hear, the more I don't care for the product. The folks who now own FTM aren't about "genealogy programs", they're about "selling CDs with purloined data". SgtGeorge George W. Durman Knoxville, TN