I rec'd this warning on another county list: **********FORWARDED MESSAGE FROM STATE-COORD-L LIST ************ >Hi Everyone: > >About 2 weeks ago we received a complaint from an Archives submitter that her materials were found on a genealogy subscription service: > >www.familydiscovery.com > >The submitter was able to do a little digging and found that they were >linking to her files housed on her server, but shrink-wrapped inside a >frame so it appears to be THEIR work. About 10 days ago, to investigate >this, I signed up with familydiscovery. To date, I have not received a user >id or password to get inside. The registered owners of the web site gave >bogus telephone numbers in their registration. One number goes to a >recorded message line; the other to a carpet company. Some of the e-mail >addys on their web site bounce. > >Standing on the outside and looking through the window, it appears that >several folks' web sites have been prize-mined: > >http://www.familydiscovery.com/whatsnew.htm > >The Storey Co., IA and the Washington Co., PA stuff seem to come from >USGenWeb sites. Some of the other IA and NC stuff seems to come from >non-USGW sites. None of the materials seem to be housed at either rootsweb >or usgennet. > Hope no one in Kane County gets hurt! Or "shrink-wrapped," whatever that means! ;) Looking for Thomas Hines, born February 1867 in Elgin, Kane County