Interesting note, Dennis Partridge also owns familytree.com the site in question. Interesting.... Keith I do have Mr. Partridge's mailing address if you would like to contact him that way, I also located his phone number (not sure if you want to make a overseas call ) let me know if you want the info. Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Hume" <k.hume3@ntlworld.com> To: "Roberta Williams" <obnn9119@yahoo.com> Cc: <chase@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [CHASE] exploitation of Chase philantropy > Hi,Roberta, > Firstly I am in England so American law is somewhat different to ours. > The problem may be that the data was put on their web site either by a > member of the Chase list,( I did give a cd with the gedcom on it to some > mebers). > Alternatively it may have been given by the owner of the Server of the > Chase site. > I do not believe we can stop familytree.com and Ancestry.com from using > the data and selling. > I may be wrong. > I am trying to contact Dennis Partridge who owns both the Surnameweb and > Genealogy surnames site. > I need to search my own archies to find what the Site address was > immediately after the big crash on Surnameweb. > It is unfortunate that I had an accident and dropped my 3 backup portable > Hard Drives on the floor and only one now works. One of the other 2 I used > only for video and film editing. > To add to my woes I have some people who have asked to have details of > living relatives removed. > At this time I am unable to access the site to alter or remove data. > Please bear with me as I have so many things going on at this time as I am > expecting my Aussie cousins here in a week's time > Keith Hume > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Roberta Williams > To: k.hume3@ntlworld.com > Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 3:12 AM > Subject: re:exploitation of Chase philantropy > > > Mr. Hume; > is there a way to organize Chase family members who feel exploited or > violated by Chase.familytreeguide.com and get an injuntion to prevent them > from distributing this personal information for profit? I'd be interested > and willing to help. Im one of a few up here in Maine that digs and helps > others voluntarily and I'd hate to think others might be exploiting that > information-and hard to believe they are Chases at all. > Sincerely > Bertie > LaGrange, ME > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHASE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message