Liz, I got the following message about FTM on another group. I don't know if its correct, but if it is true and A&E purchases them, then I wonder if the practice will continue: "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." Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Sam Braswell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: A&E Television acquires Family Tree Maker Cousins, Thought you might be interested in the latest news about Family Tree Maker, et al. A&E television acquired Genealogy.com today Mar. 20, 2001. Genealogy.com owns FTM, etc. Hopefully all this will lead to better research. Liz Visit our other Web sites: AandE.com, HistoryChannel.com, HistoryTravel.com, HistoryInternational.com, Mysteries.com & Genealogy.com © 2001 A&E Television Networks. All rights reserved. A&E, A&E logo, A&E Classroom, Biography® Channel, The History Channel®, and The History Channel Classroom® are trademarks of A&E Television Networks. -- Welcome, come by and say "Howdy" at: http://www.videoranch.net/braswell.htm http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/5455/index.html For Horse Q&A's http://www.therightlead.com (our daughter's new site!) <we reserve bragging rights!> ============================== Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp

Sandy, Genforum is out of CA. If they were to do this they would be breaking the law. When you read their privacy statement they spell it out. What you enter there is copyrighted by GenForum. This copyright protects you as well as them. If someone takes the information you submit and uses it, say for profit, they can be legally sued by Gen and us. Without the copyright the info is up for grabs. Besides that, why steal it when everyone is sending it to them. Our site is copyrighted, we put the info there for genealogists and family to use knowing that we can make mistakes. But mostly to keep it from being sold. The bottom line I believe is to be careful, use your head, do not believe everything you hear, check out information. Ancestry.com has documents that are good. I am on my 2nd 3 month sub. 19.95, and it has been worth it for me. Some will find very little. I have been lucky in my husbands Braswell line as a lot of hard work was done before me! Our daughter and I are verifying everything possible. Where the problem on the www is, is with the Pedigrees. They are done and submitted by everyone and a lot of information is wrong. Still even that gives you a place to start if they include deed or will information. The 1650 pedigree records of the Braswells in VA is hysterical, it is so wrong. Hope this helps. Now help me find parents of my gg-grandfather James Robert Merritt m to Oregon Sloan, Lake Co. Florida! <grin> Sandra Hammock wrote: > Liz, > I got the following message about FTM on another group. I don't know if > its correct, but if it is true and A&E purchases them, then I wonder if the > practice will continue: > > "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." > > Sandy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sam Braswell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:31 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: A&E Television acquires Family Tree Maker > > Cousins, > > Thought you might be interested in the latest news about Family > Tree Maker, et al. > A&E television acquired Genealogy.com today Mar. 20, 2001. > Genealogy.com owns FTM, etc. > Hopefully all this will lead to better research. > > Liz > > Visit our other Web sites: > AandE.com, HistoryChannel.com, HistoryTravel.com, > HistoryInternational.com, Mysteries.com & Genealogy.com > © 2001 A&E Television Networks. All rights reserved. > > A&E, A&E logo, A&E Classroom, Biography® Channel, The History > Channel®, > and The History Channel Classroom® are trademarks of A&E > Television Networks. > > -- > Welcome, come by and say "Howdy" at: > http://www.videoranch.net/braswell.htm > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/5455/index.html > For Horse Q&A's http://www.therightlead.com (our daughter's new > site!) <we reserve bragging rights!> > > ============================== > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/ -- Welcome, come by and say "Howdy" at: http://www.videoranch.net