> [Original Message] > From: <Camby11@aol.com> > To: <YOUNG-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 9/7/2000 7:57:40 AM > Subject: [YOUNG] Genealogy Rip off! > > I received the following from another genealogy list that I am on, > and thought it worth forwarding. > > > > I received this message after it was forwarded to the INGENWEB state > coordinator: > > About 2 weeeks ago we received a complaint from an Archives submitter > that her materials were found on a genealogy subscription service: > > www.familydiscovery.com > > The submitter was able to do a little digging and found that they > were > linking to her files housed on her server, but shrink-wrapped inside > a > frame so it appears to be THEIR work. About 10 days ago, to > investigate > this, I signed up with familydiscovery. To date, I have not received > a > user id or password to get inside. The registered owners of the web > site > gave bogus telephone numbers in their registration. One number goes > to a > recorded message line; the other to a carpet company. Some of the > e-mail > adds on their web site bounce. > > Standing on the outside and looking through the window, it appears > that > several > folks' web sites have been prize-mined: > > http://www.familydiscovery.com/whatsnew.htm > > The Storey Co., IA and the Washington Co., PA stuff seem to come > from > USGenWeb sites. Some of the other IA and NC stuff seems to come from > non-USGW sites. None of the materials seem to be housed at either > rootsweb or usgennet. > > If anyone out there is or has been a member of familydiscovery -- or > has been ripped off by them, I ["Joy Fisher" jfisher@ucla.edu>] would > like to > hear from you. > > Permission is granted to forward this message. > > > ==== YOUNG Mailing List ==== > Transcribe an old document and share it with the list. > The list owner is at lynn4604@aol.com > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > --- Rose Correa-Young --- rmcy1@earthlink.net --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.