Hello, I have been doing a family tree for quite some time now, and if you think about it you will see that there are so many people that are related to you. For example my family was all in the same area my entire family from generations and generations back have all been born, raised, lived, and died in Delaware and if you think about it like I do that means that most people in the Kent County, Delaware Area are related to me somehow! That is quite amazing. But if you think about how large the Internet is..... Well you just may see where my finger is pointed! I see it this way with all the people on the Internet there must be someone out there that can help bring more and more connections to my family! So I am asking everybody out there to help me. I know that some people are skeptical about sending there "gedcom" to other people but you know if you take a chance on me I will guarantee that if there are no connections between us then I will delete your gedcom file! So I would like everybody that has received this letter to send in a gedcom file of theirs and In return I will send you a copy of my database which has almost 20,000 people in it and this is no joke they are not all related to me but somehow threw marriages and ect they have a connection to me. So please let us all trade info and find connections among us! In about three days after receiving everybody's Info I will send mine and let you search threw it under one condition if you find a connection let me know! Thank you so much for your time. From A Fellow Researcher, Andrew Cox [email protected]

You have got to be kidding! I gave my database out once to someone that said basically the same things you are saying. I asked him not to give the information to others because I knew there were mistakes in the information. One day while surfing the web I found MY information on several pay sites, and on rootsweb, mistakes and all. I wrote to the guy and asked for my information to be taken off and got a reply "If it is yours you take it off". With that I became agree and went to his web page and wrote everyone that had posted messages to his message board. I also wrote to the sites where I had found my information posted and sent them the correspondence between myself and the thief. They removed the information from there sites. This person also had about 20,000 names in his database and could not give me an answer on one source used for two ancestors I had asked about. My policy has become never give out my entire database. If someone asks about a certain line I am more than willing to give them sources I used and any notes I have but will never again set myself up for another NAME COLLECTOR. I would also like to add that the thief was a CAMP/KEMP researcher. Happy hunting Cathy (Parnell) Vance ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:06 PM Subject: A Story Of True Family Research > Hello, > I have been doing a family tree for quite some time now, and if you think > about it you will see that there are so many people that are related to you. > For example my family was all in the same area my entire family from > generations and generations back have all been born, raised, lived, and died > in Delaware and if you think about it like I do that means that most people > in the Kent County, Delaware Area are related to me somehow! That is quite > amazing. But if you think about how large the Internet is..... Well you just > may see where my finger is pointed! I see it this way with all the people on > the Internet there must be someone out there that can help bring more and > more connections to my family! So I am asking everybody out there to help me. > I know that some people are skeptical about sending there "gedcom" to other > people but you know if you take a chance on me I will guarantee that if there > are no connections between us then I will delete your gedcom file! So I would > like everybody that has received this letter to send in a gedcom file of > theirs and In return I will send you a copy of my database which has almost > 20,000 people in it and this is no joke they are not all related to me but > somehow threw marriages and ect they have a connection to me. So please let > us all trade info and find connections among us! In about three days after > receiving everybody's Info I will send mine and let you search threw it under > one condition if you find a connection let me know! Thank you so much for > your time. > From A Fellow Researcher, > Andrew Cox > [email protected] > > ______________________________