Don't waste your time......from another list Forwarded with permission from Teresa Lindquist, a KS CC who tried out the "Angie's Genealogy Research Site" link which has been making the rounds in the USGenWeb Project and Rootsweb mailing lists lately. -- Teresa stresses that the information she got was certainly NOT correct, by any stretch of the imagination. Alice USGenWeb CC forClark Co. WA http://www.rootsweb.com/~waclark/clark.htm Listmom for WACLARK-L ----- Original Message ----- From: merope < merope@Radix.Net > To: <USGENWEB-ALL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 7:43 AM Subject: [ALL-L] Angie's Genealogy Page > This may interest some of you that have received the spam messages from > mailto:'sussex@sussex.com, "clark@clark.com" etc., that take you to > http://65.10.15.149/FreeGen/ This is "Angie's genealogy Page". I took > the plunge and registered [big mistake, my email address is probably on > its way to spam central as we speak], and here's what happened. > > After about a day I got a confirmation email. I tried to click on the > link to confirm my membership and it timed out for a couple of days. > Finally got in. Once you are a confirmed member, it takes you to a > search screen. You start out with "50 credits". Each surname search > costs you two credits. To get more credits, you need to send $10 to > "Angie Giles, P.O.Box 873, Rowlett,TX 75030-0873". Each credit costs one > cent. I searched on "Smith" and got the results "Name not yet in database > or surname/givenname missing. Use back button and try again." And I'm > now down to 48 credits. :) Tried "Jones". Same result. Down to 46 > credits. Tried "John Smith" [perhaps a given name is required]. > Ahhh..this time the search took an incredibly long time [several minutes] > and pulled up a large number of "John Smith" entries, with the following > information: "Surname, Given Name | Sex | Birth Date | Spouse 1 | Spouse 2 > | Spouse 3 | Spouse 4 | Spouse 5". A sample entry looks like this: > "SMITH, JOHN |Bet. 1827-1847 SCROGGINS, VONNIE LIQUITA| > | |". Then you are asked to select one name for further searching. Each > search of this list costs 6 credits. The next screen gives you their > parents and offers you the opportunity to "expand the information" at a > cost of 6 credits [I'm now down to 38]. >In this particular example, JOHN > SMITH has no info for his parents, but additional marriage information is > available and there is info on his spouse VONNIE LIQUITA SCROGGINS, > including her parents and children [interestingly enough, her children > with John all have the last name of Jordan.] I chose to expand her > father's information, HENRY AARON SCROGGINS. The information for Henry > lists his date and place of birth and death [1902-1948]. >Now I think this > odd, since his daughter's husband was supposedly born between 1827 and > 1847 and he died between 1872 and 1933, but no birth and death info is > given for Vonnie or her mother [and I am now down to 20 credits]. Trying > to access information on her children resulted in repeated server errors, > but did not cost me any additional credits. When I finally did access her > kids, there was no birth or death date information, although some of them > did have spouses and kids listed [2 credits remaining] > > Just for the heck of it, I did a search for which I did not have enough > credits. The search was completed and shows a credit of -4. When I > tried to go past that point, I got this message "You are out of credits. > To order more credits: One credit equals 1 cent, send a minimum of $10 > to: Angie Giles, P.O.Box 873, Rowlett,TX 75030-0873 Be sure to include > your email address." > > So, what did I get for my 50 free credits? Well, obviously incorrect > information, for one thing. Very little of any use, even if I were > researching "John Smith". And in order to explore this further, I need to > send $10 to a complete stranger who has a P.O. Box in Texas. > > Oh, and for those of you who care about that sort of thing, NO source > information was provided for any of this. > > -Teresa > merope@radix.net Colleen ----- Original Message ----- From: <Stanislaus@Stanislaus.com> To: <CASTANIS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 10:55 AM Subject: [CASTANIS] Stanislaus Research Site > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/1968 > > Message Board Post: > > I found a great Stanislaus County Genealogy Site: > > http://65.10.15.149/FreeGen/Home.html > > They will be adding over 1 billion names to their online database over the next few months. > >