merci beaucoup... je comprends maintenant le litige... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michel Daoust" <cheminot@cgocable.ca> To: "Francis T. Watters" <wattersft@gowebway.com>; <quebec@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [QUEBEC] Ancestry.com & Drouin You can read it all on the Institut Drouin web site. http://www.institutdrouin.com/Sentencearbitrale_IGD_120809.pdf Michel -----Original Message----- From: quebec-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:quebec-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Francis T. Watters Sent: September 14, 2009 3:37 PM To: quebec@rootsweb.com Subject: [QUEBEC] Ancestry.com & Drouin It's surprising that no one has commented on the disappearence of the Drouin Collections from Ancestry.com since about August 31st. I wrote three times to Ancestry and have always received the same vague answer which tells me nothing. This is what I received from them three days ago: "Dear Francis T.,, We appreciate your message. I apologise for your frustration. We have no further information on the Drouin Collection" End of message. After searching the Internet it appears that Jean Pierre Pepin who owns the Drouin Collections has started legal action against Ancestry.com supposedly because they did not live up to the terms of the original agreement signed in 2006 or 2007. So far we only have the Drouin side of the argument since Ancestry has refused to say specifically what the problem is as you can see from their Sept. 11th message. I know that since there was supposed to be a meeting before a Quebec judge on Sept 8th after mediation, one would expect to have had some follow-up message, but so far total silence. Does anyone have any fresh information on this issue? Will we ever see the Drouin Collections on Ancestry.com again? Let's hope that we will and that Ancestry & Drouin come to some satisfatory agreement. Among other bones of contention, Drouin seems now to believe he didn't get enough money from Ancestry when he ceded them the rights to the collections. I see he's also suing the BANQ (Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec) What a mess! Frank . . Search the Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=QUEBEC . Browse the Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/QUEBEC/ . A link to a favorite site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unclefred/main.htm . ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUEBEC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message . . Search the Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=QUEBEC . Browse the Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/QUEBEC/ . A link to a favorite site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unclefred/main.htm . ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUEBEC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message