You may receive one with your family name inserted...Beware! and tell your relatives, too... **************** As I was leaving last week for MS & GA, I received duplicate pieces of mail from Morphcorp LLC, dba The Gieger Family News - Maxwell and Christina Gieger, 1181 S Parker Rd #105, Denver CO 80231, (303)751-0869" (I bet this is a mail box to go) offering a Book and CD ROM purported to contain "all the Gieger records" at the pre-publication price of $34.95 plus a $5.00 "order processing fee." > Never heard of them... > Two of my sons got that same mailing... > At least, they admit that it is raw data which you will need Word- Processing software to access...but not to worry because "your kid can figure it out" This bothers me because they are preying on un-informed people... > One thing that caught my eye is, they proclaim that Nona Gieger set the Family Longevity record. WELL you don't say... Nona was my PATERNAL Grandmother and although she did live 100 years, 9 months, she was a COFFMAN who married a GIEGER...My grandfather died at 49. > Another thing - "Did you know that 25 Gieger households live in FLORIDA in 1999(which is the largest state gathering.)(We've got the counts in all states.)" Well, of course we knew...Many of Felix Gieger's descendants migrated there...and some of Cornelius' did, too. > DON'T BE TAKEN IN BY THIS - Unless you have money to burn, it will likely not benefit you. If you have extra money, give it to Rootsweb and you will get a much bigger "Bang-for-the-Buck" People on this list know more than any "rip-off" artists... > Sorry to say, while I was in MS someone handed me a book which was one of those Bailey books from Ohio purporting to be their "Family History." It had a lot of information about how to start searching, and on the family of the author(who is not related and as I recall, went to Jail for mail Fraud). Also, I saw a different colored copy with that same information for another Family in the Collins, MS Library...They have blanks in the back for you to fill in your own data. Virtually Worthless. > It is likely that you may have or will receive a mailing like this in the near future, with your family name or other surnames. I just wanted to make sure that you are aware of what you are getting...a lot of names, addresses, and phone numbers which you can get right off the Internet for FREE... > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.