Equally irritating are those who make contact, ask for information, you send them all you have [because they are usually distant relatives] and never hear from them again, let alone get a thank you or any updates. But for every one of those, there are others who are pleased to share and swap knowledge, and I now have 'cousins' around the globe and UK who keep in touch. It must indeed be maddening to find your work, freely given out, published without acknowledgement of the source. WENDY

WLawday@aol.com wrote: > Equally irritating are those who make contact, ask for information, you send > them all you have [because they are usually distant relatives] and never > hear from them again, let alone get a thank you or any updates. > > But for every one of those, there are others who are pleased to share and > swap knowledge, and I now have 'cousins' around the globe and UK who keep in > touch. > > It must indeed be maddening to find your work, freely given out, published > without acknowledgement of the source. > > WENDY > > > > > ---- ENG-HEREFORD Mailing List ---- > A genealogy and local history list covering the County of Hereford > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-HEREFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > My brother in Gosport can agree with you Wendy. He did exactly the same. He was quite a newbie to genealogy and believed a woman implicitly when she wanted to swap family information. He did. She never did. He was both angry and upset and vowed never to part with such hard won information to a stranger again. April