Friends, I am forwarding this from another list that I am on the web site they are referring to is http://www.familydiscovery.com/ Debbie Walters ------------------- X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:24:03 -0800 From: Margie <margecam@pacbell.net> To: MOIRON-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: <00ad01c0ab86$34eba640$3090fea9@margecam> Subject: Charging to link to Free sites.. not fair Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I just became aware that your Discovery.com site is charging people 7.95 for link information to sites on many of the free genealogy sites, Including the sites I host at rootsweb. I take offense at this, as I work hard to make sure the information is free for everyone. You defeat that goal.. and did not even find any of this information on your own... I am sending a copy of my note (this note) to aol's abuse address. I feel it is not fair for you to do this. I am also posting a copy of this note to the lists I host at Rootsweb. Please remove any mention of sites at Rootsweb, GenWeb, etc.. unless provided at no charge. I pay for copies, I upload the information & don't charge for it.. Why should you collect for work others do? Marge Campbell Host for Iron County MO web page, Iron county mail lists, Hermes maillist, Wenstrom maillist. Volunteer host of several other mail lists & one of a dozen volunteers now formating census information for free use on the internet.. http://www.rootsweb.com/~moiron2 Iron County MO Web Page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcampbel/home.htm Margie Campbell's Web Page I received this on my Hill list at rootsweb thought I would pass it on, I have no personal knowledge of these people. HILL-L@rootsweb.com I took a minute out of our volunteer typing time to check this site out. 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 ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com