Hi Listers I received the following notice on the TATE-L genealogy list and I thought it would be worth sharing. Jean > ************************************************* > X-Message: #1 > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 05:37:06 +0300 > From: Lloyd Neilsen <lloydi@ubtanet.com> > To: TATE-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <3AB570D0.A57@ubtanet.com> > Subject: [TATE-L] Re: [NHROCKIN] Genealogy for Profit. A declaration of > WAR! > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi everyone. this came as a message from the listowner for the > Rockingham, New Hamspshire list that I belong to. I thought everyone > ought to see what is going on. Mr. Marston has asked that we send this > along to the lists we belong to so I am doing so. Please read the whole > message to see what is going on. I think at the very least we ought to > take it as a warning and a reminder that not all we find is correct > information and just use it as a tool to look further. > > Lee Neilsen in Eastern Utah > <A HREF="mailto:lloydi@ubtanet.com">lloydi@ubtanet.com</A> > ************************* > Dick Marston wrote: > > Listers: > > I have naively included a link to GenForum for those wishing to post and > respond to Rockingham and Marston surname queries. Furthermore, I have > innocently posted several responses on those forums. Today, I have amended > the link on Rockingham's Queries Index Page to read as follows: > > **If you want still another place to search and post, try the Rockingham > county message board on [ genforum.genealogy.com/nh/rockingham/ ] WARNING!! > Any information which you share on GenForum's message boards may be copied > by Genealogy.com [/FamilyTreeMaker.com] and sold by them for profit either > as data included on a monthly/annual subscription or as a CD for purchase. > Much of this information is totally unreliable. Caveat emptor [Buyer > beware]. In order to see what, if any, information Genealogy.com has > acquired from your voluntary contributions, you will first need to > subscribe to their service available to paying members only.** > > I am SO angry I could spit!! Until I started checking up on this fiasco > about my father's pedigree, I had NO clue that Genealogy.com was doing > this. I want to declare WAR! I can't get through to their leaders, but I > sure would like to get through to their potential customers and unwitting > voluntary contributors. > > Please feel free to copy and paste [or send] this warning wherever, or to > whomever, you think might do the most good. You may post it as your own > message or as a quote from me, whichever you prefer. Your help will be > greatly appreciated. > -- > **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT**********

JAYEWHEEL@aol.com wrote: > > Hi Listers > > I received the following notice on the TATE-L genealogy list and I thought it > would be worth sharing. > > Jean > Hmmmm... interesting! I don't have a Genealogy.com subscription so can't verify whether this is fact. I'd like to hear from some of our KEIM subscribers whether or not this is fact! It is certainly something we'd like more info on. And as for FTM putting the info on a CD for purchase, several of us own/buy those CDs. Has anyone seen such a title listed in the little magazine they send advertising the different new CDs available? I've not noticed any!

Thought about this some more. Aren't folks aware of the FREE search engine on FTM's website; great for tracking down family info on the internet: http://www.genealogy.com/ifftop.html Anyone may use this search engine! I definitely want more details before I'm going to condemn FTM for these "alleged crimes!" Cindy