I had a negative experience VERY RECENTLY. Names are omitted here. Has this happened to anyone? Is this a scam? A person found my query in a genweb page, and emailed me and said (quote) "Have info on this family" "Contact this person" (and included a name and address of another party) I wrote to this person, excited that this person had info on my family name and I asked graciously for copies of any info on this name that she had and I stated that I would be happy to pay for postage and copies. A package came for me, with a bill for RESEARCH FEES, copies (at 25 cents each) and postage. I was shocked. I did NOT pay the bill and then this person sent me another letter, implying that this is her/his retirement income and NO ONE had ever refused to pay before because they were so delighted with the info sent. HE/SHE said DONT BE THE FIRST! It was a very intimidating letter, by design. I replied with a check for postage and copies ONLY, quoting from my original letter. I again stated that I never ordered or agreed to pay for research fees. This person AGAIN wrote back, with a letter accusing me of many things, including having a bad hair day or bad PMS, etc. It went on and on about wasting gas, trip to the courthouse, etc, etc. I had no problem throwing away the letter, but it was AGAIN, trying to intimidate me into paying for research not ordered. Anyone had this experience? Although I consider it over and will throw away (unopened) any additional correspondence, it angers me that probably someone else might have given in to the intimidation and paid this person anyway. It probably worked before. BEWARE! Barb Thomas bthomas@wport.com