Received this from the Hertfordshire list. Not all lists are "not for profit" as we are. Stephen Researching the following names:- BAKER, CANNON; CHALKLEY - Hertfordshire SPENCE, KELLY, ELMESLEY - Moray, Scotland DANIELS, EBB, BRACKENBURY, DARCY , WARD - Lincolnshire PETRIE, GOW, FORBES, BRODIE - Scotland (especially Perthshire) RUTHERFORD, Roxburghshire, Scotland DONALD, STRACHAN, MOLLISON, SMITH - Aberdeenshire, Scotland ELLIS, MITCHELL - North Yorkshire STALKER, BRENNAND - Kendal, Westmorland HINCHLIFFE, PAYNE - West Riding of Yorkshire BERRY - Leicestershire WARNING BEGINS HERE 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.