Good Morning, I received this from another mailing list and thought many of you might be interested. If not I apologize for taking up your time but I think as Dick says "Buyer beware." I personally had an experience with this sort of thing. I keep finding MY own material on a CD that I did NOT authorize. Have a good day. Kat JstPlnKAT@aol.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. > > >

I also had this same experience with Family tree maker Cd's the only one I ever authorized was vol.4 way back when . Since then my own updated line which I had posted as a home page on FTM as appeared on two CD'last year. I also was furious. I was not aware that those posted to genforum were also being copied & sold what a rip off to the general public. Gwen Renshaw Maurer in CA

At 03:04 AM 3/25/01 -0500, you wrote: >Good Morning, > >I received this from another mailing list and thought many of you might be >interested. If not I apologize for taking up your time but I think as Dick >says "Buyer beware." I personally had an experience with this sort of thing. >I keep finding MY own material on a CD that I did NOT authorize. >Have a good day. > >Kat >JstPlnKAT@aol.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. > > > > > > crap, isn't it. I did the same thing. Then i decided to create my own > home page. > > >==== PADAUPHI Mailing List ==== >List Ownwer Nadine Hensley for list help please e-mail me at >ndwilson@swbell.net