Ken, I find your message interesting and I want to pass it on to the people at Camaripo. I also want to add my personal experience with release of private information due to the transformation. I was appalled to find my full name posted by every post I have made on Rootsweb. I have always posted merely as "Sharon" but a couple days ago noticed every post I have made back to 2000 now had my first AND last name. I still am not totally clear how posts I made on Rootsweb boards, where my full name was not attached, could be matched by ancestry.com with my full name. I have had an ancestry.com commercial account and of course they had my full name...FOR BILLING PURPOSES ONLY. I have a user name at ancestry.com, of course, an alias but it was not my user name that is used in this conversion...all posts now have first and last names attached. At no time was permission granted to ancestry.com or rootsweb to publish my last name. I consider this violations of invasion of privacy, Publicity Given to Private Life and appropriation of name. I have written to ancestry.com about this matter and received their standard form letter. I have asked them how, and WHY, they associated posts made at rootsweb with information given them strictly for billing purposes attached to my commercial ancestry.com account...they have not responded. Imagine, for example, if someone made a posting of a delicate matter under an alias or the impression of confidentiality, such as an unwanted pregnancy, and the post is now associated with the person's full name. If this concerns any of you, you might want to do a check by going to this web site, and in the box labeled "Find a Message Board", put in your last name: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=main&r=an Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Frank Doig" <kendoig@psnw.com> To: <CAMADERA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [CAMADERA] LOOKUP Classification Wrong - Re: Theodore Thure Strombeck > Hi Murial, [Copy to Madera and California List] > I find the change of the free Rootsweb message boards to a new format > copyrighted by MyTrees unacceptable to the spirit of the GenWeb. The site is > down now so I cannot confirm my earlier inspection that there was no > reciprical link back to the Madera GenWeb. I object to having the default > search for all the message board; I restrict the information and links I > provide strictly to this county or to those surrounding. You inform me that > I will be unable to cut/paste and retrieve the many obituaries I posted > because MyTrees has blocked this option. And why is a user name and password > now required when it worked without it? > I have removed my links from the Madera GenWeb to the MyTrees message > board. I will consider relinking when the copyright, block to copying, and > username requirement have been removed. > I will not do lookups from the MyTrees message board unless I can > respond directly to the requester. I will not post to the board or respond > on the board until MyTrees has removed its copyright and issued a public > statement that it will not sell current or past information. > And what happened to the CA birth and death indexes? Or can I purchase > these with a subscription? > I am curious, Murial. Are you a volunteer or paid? > Best regards, > Ken Doig, free volunteer host of the Madera GenWeb > > PS to Madera - The Board of Directors of the Madera Cemetery District has > approved posting all its burials on the Madera GenWeb with period updates. > We should receive maybe 50,000 plus names in the next few weeks. I know they > cleaned off the contact relative and phone number. I don't know yet whether > we will get the parent's names. More to come. > > PSS - If anyone wants to post a query I will reactivate a manual system. > > > > Muriel wrote: > > > Hi. I am Muriel, the new Message board administrator. All the messages > > from the boards are gatewayed to the Madera List. If someone wants a > > lookup, they can post it on the boards, and it will get to the list. > > We do have subscribers to the list who do lookups. > > I really cannot say if myfamily.com will harvest your email address, but > > I do know that they have protected it and it cannot even be cut and > > pasted from the Message Board. > > Relax, and enjoy the new system. > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > ============================== > > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > > your heritage! > > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >