Hello all---these messages were posted on another Rootsweb list that I belong to....I'm passing it along as I believe it to be something we should all be aware of. There are three messages in all. Mary, Hamburg PA ================================== Subject: Ethics > Hi everyone. this came as a message from the listowner for the Rockingham, > New Hampshire list that I belong to. I thought everyone ought to see what is going on. Mr. Marston has asked that we send this along to the lists we > belong to so I am doing so. Please read the whole message to see what is > going on. I think at the very least we ought to take it as a warning and a reminder that not all we find is correct information and just use it as a > tool to look further. > > Lee Neilsen in Eastern Utah > mailto:lloydi@ubtanet.com">lloydi@ubtanet.com > ************************* > Dick Marston wrote: > > Listers: > > I have naively included a link to GenForum for those wishing to post > and respond to Rockingham and Marston surname queries. Furthermore, > I have innocently posted several responses on those forums. Today, I > have amended the link on Rockingham's Queries Index Page to read as > follows: > > **If you want still another place to search and post, try the Rockingham > County message board on [ genforum.genealogy.com/nh/rockingham/ ] > 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. Caveat emptor [Buyer beware]. In order to see what, if any, > information Genealogy.com has acquired from your voluntary contributions, > you will first need to subscribe to their service available to > paying members only.** > > I am SO angry I could spit!! Until I started checking up on this fiasco > about my father's pedigree, I had NO clue that Genealogy.com was > doing this. I want to declare WAR! I can't get through to their leaders, > but I sure would like to get through to their potential customers and > unwitting voluntary contributors. > > Please feel free to copy and paste [or send] this warning wherever, > or to whomever, you think might do the most good. You may post it as > your own message or as a quote from me, whichever you prefer. Your help > will be greatly appreciated. >================================================== Subject: Re: [JONES-L] Fwd: Important Regarding GenForum Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 08:01:51 -0500 From: "Wayne and Rose" <stavem@prodigy.net> To: JONES-L@rootsweb.com Everton does the same thing. A friend of mine had checked it; she's a subscriber, and she found my mother's maiden name. She innocently copied it all for me, etc. and the presented it to me as a gift, and told me that I could PURCHASE the same information and more from them; they had family group sheets on my family. The information she FOUND and paid to subscribe to was the exact information I had sent to a cousin (ERRORS and all!) which have since been corrected in MY genealogy. He had naively sent it in to Everton! I wrote Everton regarding this, and I believe they have taken it off of their list of information (At least that's what they wrote to me!)