Betty: Didn't receive any e-mail, but I have visited their site in the past and they offer some great info on the site to use when looking for ancestors. Wendy :) --- Betty Thomas <bettythomas@charter.net> wrote: > At 12:20 PM 1/14/01 -0500, Nancy M. Atkinson wrote: > >Folks, > > > >Has anyone else received an unsolicited piece of > e-mail titled 'Luzerne > >County Genealogy Update'? This > Advertising/Marketing e-mail is promoting a > >website called Folk Finders. Has anyone had > experience with this company to > >know whether or not they are legit? > > > >I replied to the person responsible for sending > this to me and he claims not > >to be affiliated with any Luzerne County mailing > list. I am having trouble > >believing that. These type of e-mails annoy me to > no end! If no-one else > >on PALUZERN received this e-mail then I suppose he > must have gotten my info > >elsewhere. > > > >Nancy > > > > > The only people who have access to your address > are rootsweb and your > listowner. If it didn't have [PALUZERN] in the > "from:" area then you > didn't get it via the list. The only way to post to > any rootsweb list > is to subscribe, so its possible that someone can > send something like that > to the list, but not probable. It also could have > been forwarded to the > list by some other subscriber. > In any case, I find it more fun to do my own leg > work than to pay someone > to do it for me. > Betty > > bettythomas@charter.net > My Family - http://BettyT.tripod.com > Wicks,Hammond, Heintz,Bradfield,Walbridge > Boylston Historical Society > http://www.ultranet.com/~boyhisoc/ > GenWeb County Coordinator for: > Genesee, NY http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenese > Wyoming, NY http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywyomin > Worcester, MA http://www.rootsweb.com/~maworces > > > ==== PALUZERN Mailing List ==== > Northeast Pennsylvania Chat can be accessed at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~paluzern/chat.htm > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/