This looks awfully suspicious to me too. There's no street address, phone number, name(s) of any individual, nada ... Totally anonymous. When you hit reveal source for their home page code, you find that's it's written in the simplest HTML --- implied, they spent very little time coding their page. Their links are to official government sites giving you the sense that they're sanctioned by the government. BE CAREFUL. Lenny Caudill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Megan Zurawicz Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 6:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NCWILKES] www.govtregistry.com Database Access I have no experience with them, but note that if you look up a whois for who owns that domain, you get, essentially, "none of your business"---a "private registration" hidden behind their web hosting company. In my experience, the reputable companies don't feel a need to hide who's behind the company. That would make me very skittish to hand these folks money, were it me. Note that I'm not saying "this is a bad guy"---I have no idea. Just that I'm not comfortable with what I know about them at this point. --pig On 7/5/08 6:19 PM, "Pam Stone" <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone on the list ever used _www.govtregistry.com_ > (http://www.govtregistry.com) ? They are currently offering lifetime > access for $39.95 (normally > $99.95) and supposedly has international birth and death records, marriage > records, divorce records, genealogy records, etc, etc. If anyone has any > experience with this website, I'd love to get your feedback. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Lenny and you others, thank you for looking out for us in alerting us to what may not be on the up and up. Appreciate you guys/gals. Jo Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lenny Caudill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [NCWILKES] www.govtregistry.com Database Access > This looks awfully suspicious to me too. There's no street address, phone > number, name(s) of any individual, nada ... Totally anonymous. > > When you hit reveal source for their home page code, you find that's it's > written in the simplest HTML --- implied, they spent very little time > coding > their page. > > Their links are to official government sites giving you the sense that > they're sanctioned by the government. > > BE CAREFUL. > > Lenny Caudill > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Megan Zurawicz > Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 6:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NCWILKES] www.govtregistry.com Database Access > > I have no experience with them, but note that if you look up a whois for > who > owns that domain, you get, essentially, "none of your business"---a > "private > registration" hidden behind their web hosting company. > > In my experience, the reputable companies don't feel a need to hide who's > behind the company. That would make me very skittish to hand these folks > money, were it me. Note that I'm not saying "this is a bad guy"---I have > no > idea. Just that I'm not comfortable with what I know about them at this > point. > > --pig > > > On 7/5/08 6:19 PM, "Pam Stone" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Has anyone on the list ever used _www.govtregistry.com_ >> (http://www.govtregistry.com) ? They are currently offering lifetime >> access for $39.95 (normally >> $99.95) and supposedly has international birth and death records, > marriage >> records, divorce records, genealogy records, etc, etc. If anyone has >> any >> experience with this website, I'd love to get your feedback. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

There is an old saying that could be applied to this database site....."Where there is smoke, there is fire." With all the deceptive practices that occur online, I personally would NEVER join a site that hides who the people are that own it.  For now, I would list it in the column titled "SCAM". Barbara --- On Sat, 7/5/08, Lenny Caudill <[email protected]> wrote: From: Lenny Caudill <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NCWILKES] www.govtregistry.com Database Access To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 4:25 PM This looks awfully suspicious to me too. There's no street address, phone number, name(s) of any individual, nada ... Totally anonymous. When you hit reveal source for their home page code, you find that's it's written in the simplest HTML --- implied, they spent very little time coding their page. Their links are to official government sites giving you the sense that they're sanctioned by the government. BE CAREFUL. Lenny Caudill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Megan Zurawicz Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 6:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NCWILKES] www.govtregistry.com Database Access I have no experience with them, but note that if you look up a whois for who owns that domain, you get, essentially, "none of your business"---a "private registration" hidden behind their web hosting company. In my experience, the reputable companies don't feel a need to hide who's behind the company. That would make me very skittish to hand these folks money, were it me. Note that I'm not saying "this is a bad guy"---I have no idea. Just that I'm not comfortable with what I know about them at this point. --pig On 7/5/08 6:19 PM, "Pam Stone" <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone on the list ever used _www.govtregistry.com_ > (http://www.govtregistry.com) ? They are currently offering lifetime > access for $39.95 (normally > $99.95) and supposedly has international birth and death records, marriage > records, divorce records, genealogy records, etc, etc. If anyone has any > experience with this website, I'd love to get your feedback. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks, everyone. I think, from what everyone has said that is a "fake site", and not reliable. I personally will not have anything to do with this website, and I will no longer recognize or answer anyone that communicates from this site. Pam [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lenny Caudill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [NCWILKES] www.govtregistry.com Database Access This looks awfully suspicious to me too. There's no street address, phone number, name(s) of any individual, nada ... Totally anonymous. When you hit reveal source for their home page code, you find that's it's written in the simplest HTML --- implied, they spent very little time coding their page. Their links are to official government sites giving you the sense that they're sanctioned by the government. BE CAREFUL. Lenny Caudill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Megan Zurawicz Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 6:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NCWILKES] www.govtregistry.com Database Access I have no experience with them, but note that if you look up a whois for who owns that domain, you get, essentially, "none of your business"---a "private registration" hidden behind their web hosting company. In my experience, the reputable companies don't feel a need to hide who's behind the company. That would make me very skittish to hand these folks money, were it me. Note that I'm not saying "this is a bad guy"---I have no idea. Just that I'm not comfortable with what I know about them at this point. --pig On 7/5/08 6:19 PM, "Pam Stone" <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone on the list ever used _www.govtregistry.com_ > (http://www.govtregistry.com) ? They are currently offering lifetime > access for $39.95 (normally > $99.95) and supposedly has international birth and death records, marriage > records, divorce records, genealogy records, etc, etc. If anyone has any > experience with this website, I'd love to get your feedback. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message