In a message dated 5/3/04 10:34:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gen-search@cox.net writes: > Hollis, > Not to my knowledge, but I am not of the Mormon or Latter Day Saint faith. > I do believe Ancestry.com owns Rootsweb.com and Genealogy.com. > > This is for everyone's information: One Great Family (OGF) I understand > was another site that was free in the beginning, but now charges a > membership fee like Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com. When I first came upon > their site, I found the names, dates and places of myself, my husband, my > children, my grandchildren, my siblings and their families enter six (6) > times. I e-mailed them requesting the names and e-mail addresses of the > submitters. They sent me three (3). One name I recognized the other two I > didn't know. I e-mailed them, two bounced, the one I knew and one I didn't > know. The third e-mailed me back saying she didn't submit the information > that I should get in touch with OGF. I e-mailed her back telling her that > OGF was where I got her name and e-mail address. She finally said that she > didn't remember sending it to them. I was able to get in touch with my > "cousin" and he was the one who told me that OGF was once free and that he > would request the information to be removed. I have requested on a number > of occasions as late as last month, that they remove the information from > my parents on down. They continue to refuse my request. > OGF's homepage instructs you to have the permission of the individuals > on whom you submit information. I explained to their representatives that > no one had my permission to post my information on the internet, especially > on living individuals. I told the last one that I would tell everyone I > know not to use their service. She accused me of slander. I told her that > the telling of the truth is not slander. I even explained the fact that > people are out there stealing personal identifications. I still can't get > though to them. The dollar signs ($$$$$) are the only thing they see. > "The dollar signs ($$$$$) are the only thing they see". That, and egotistical greed, regardless of correct content, simply the need to be first whether accurate or inaccurate.....doesn't seem to matter, also doesn't seem to matter if individuals are living or dead. Someone posted my husband's name, address, and phone number in their data, that website is no longer online. My unsourced data was submitted to LDS by an individual (be happy I didn't use the word that came to mind), who was asked not to publish. It's on CDs, and listed multiple times. Everytime something new is added to the data it's listed again, and to prove that, I posted some documented data, that I otherwise would not have done, only to see when I'd find it on LDS. It wasn't very long before it showed up, on those same CDs. I'm told that these records were also submitted to Ancestry, and I wouldn't know, because I don't and won't pay for the service. Now I notice that some of the other LDS records show no submitter's name or number, only that it was submitted by a church member. Recently received a copied, forwarded document, by the aforesaid "individual" giving me credit for surname research. I don't want my name associated with any data that I did not personally submit, and after four more years of extensive research for said family, now makes much of what is selling on LDS CDs of no consequence, because it is wrong. That's the real heartbreaker, all those poor naive' researchers who will blindly believe what they read, without researching for themselves. This is my last say on the subject, except that it's all very disappointing. Sherry tybeetide@aol.com