Dear Jean: If you have proof that people are doing what you say, I suggest you notify appropriate entities, including Better Business Bureaus, the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Board for Certification of Genealogists, the Family History Library, the various societies - including especially the Federation of Genealogical Societies, the National Genealogical Societies and the New England Historic and Genealogical Society - so they can tell the public about these crooks. It is in their own interest that all of these groups want to rid genealogy of such people. If you don't have proof, then I would find something else to be annoyed about. Richard Pence Disclaimer: I am a member of the Association of Professional Genealogist, but I do not take clients for pay. I am not a certified or accredited genealogist. I am a member of the National Genealogical Society. I write article on genealogy and - rarely - get paid for them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean McCarthy" <jeanmccarthy36@googlemail.com> To: <copyright@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [COPYRIGHT] Ancestry and Web pages > Yes I agree with you 100% Pat that people who do professional > research should be paid for their work. Trouble is, the unscrupulous > researchers that I am referring to charged their clients for travel > expenses as well as many hours of searching microfilms at LDS family > history centres. This was the 10 years of work that I did and made > available for free. They just sat at home and took the information > from my web site for free without moving out of their house. To me > that is fraud against their clients. > > Jean McCarthy nee Moore > > > On 31/08/2007, Pat Asher <pasher@ee.net> wrote: >> At 04:09 PM 8/31/2007, you wrote: >> >I openly invite people to take what they want from my web site. It is >> >there to help people with their research. However, as has happened >> >many times in the past, professional researchers take information from >> >my site and charge their clients a lot of money for it, then that >> >annoys me but I don't think there is anything that I can do about it. >> >> Some people hire someone to clean their house, or do their yard work >> -- because they don't want to do it themselves. Would you object to >> the people who actually did do the work being paid? Of course not. >> >> Some people are just not into "do it yourself" genealogy >> research. They would prefer to pay someone else to do the research >> and just provide them the finished report. The people who do the >> research are providing a service and IMO should certainly be paid for >> the service they provide. >> >> Pat >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> COPYRIGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > -- > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanmccarthy36/ > > jeanmccarthy36@googlemail.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COPYRIGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message