I received this today. I wish it had come along sooner, because I was one of the stupid people that took advantage of their "good deal" not realizing that it was just a copy of a free website. Be careful because I can't get my money back. > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:52:32 -0600 > From: Lori Plymesser <deelah@popmail.tds.net> > To: WIDODGE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WIDODGE] Fw: [BLAIR-L] Fwd: genealogy > fraud (asked by rootsweb to pass it along to > all our lists) > > Passing this along to more lists. > > Lori > > I received this message from the Blair list and > felt that it is worth > passing on. If this is true, no one should > make a profit from work that > has > been placed on the web by volunteers who > intended their work to be > free. I > am having difficulty with my ISP at this time > and can't get online for > anything except e-mail. I am mailing this to > all lists I belong to. > Dottie in NH > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bette Sears" <bezzsears@yahoo.com> > To: <BLAIR-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 7:50 PM > Subject: [BLAIR-L] Fwd: genealogy fraud (asked > by rootsweb to pass to > all > our lists) > > > > > I received this on my Sears list at > rootsweb thought I would pass it > on, > > >I have no knowledge of these people. > > > http://www.familydiscovery.com/ > > > > > > It is a fraudulent site because a > membership gives you links to our > > > free sites. You do not have to pay to get > to any site in USGenWeb > > > Right here, there is no charge to get to > all the counties in > USGenWeb. > > > > > > We are all hardworking volunteers to have > genealogy information > > > free for researchers. > > > > > > I have found links to our Macoupin civil > war rosters, censuses, > > > which we spent many hours of volunteer time > now to have unknowing > > > researchers pay a membership to click on a > link to view our work. > > > Macoupin County ILGenWeb volunteers have > put over 1400 pages of > > > free information and continuing to work to > get more pages up. > > > > > > If any person finds our complete work in > their membership, please > > > notify me. Please pass this information > onto any list. Let's try to > > > keep these ripoffs from making their pile > of money from our > > > volunteer work. > > > > > > Please pass this onto any list you might be > on. Hopefully, this > > > site will be removed soon if not sooner. > > > > > > Thanks for listening. > > > > > > Gloria > > > Steve Hill > > > Natchez, Ms. > > > flacracker@peoplepc.com > ===== Holly Dietz Hoffmaster Researching DIETZ, TAYLOR, BALDAUF, CONSTANT, NEUENDORF, FRANKENSTEIN, MALCHOW, JUDY, TSCHUDI, MARKLEY, AUFLICK, WOODBURN, LEONARD, HOFFMASTER and many others! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/