----- Original Message ----- From: "Peggy Jacobs" <missingtexas@zianet.com> To: <EVANS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 1:56 AM Subject: Fw: [JACOBS] Genealogy Rip off! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: June Jacobs Jordan <jordanaj@gte.net> > To: <JACOBS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 12:10 PM > Subject: [JACOBS] Genealogy Rip off! > > > > Forwarded from the Brown Co. OH list > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: <Camby11@aol.com> > > > To: <HOLLINGER-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 10:54 AM > > > Subject: Genealogy Rip off! > > > > > > I received the following from another genealogy list that I am on, > > > and thought it worth forwarding. > > > > > > I received this message after it was forwarded to the INGENWEB state > > > coordinator: > > > > > > About 2 weeeks ago we received a complaint from an Archives submitter > > > that her materials were found on a genealogy subscription service: > > > > > > www.familydiscovery.com > > > > > > The submitter was able to do a little digging and found that they > > > were > > > linking to her files housed on her server, but shrink-wrapped inside > > > a > > > frame so it appears to be THEIR work. About 10 days ago, to > > > investigate > > > this, I signed up with familydiscovery. To date, I have not received > > > a > > > user id or password to get inside. The registered owners of the web > > > site > > > gave bogus telephone numbers in their registration. One number goes > > > to a > > > recorded message line; the other to a carpet company. Some of the > > > e-mail > > > adds on their web site bounce. > > > > > > Standing on the outside and looking through the window, it appears > > > that > > > several > > > folks' web sites have been prize-mined: > > > > > > http://www.familydiscovery.com/whatsnew.htm > > > > > > The Storey Co., IA and the Washington Co., PA stuff seem to come > > > from > > > USGenWeb sites. Some of the other IA and NC stuff seems to come from > > > non-USGW sites. None of the materials seem to be housed at either > > > rootsweb or usgennet. > > > > > > If anyone out there is or has been a member of familydiscovery -- or > > > has been ripped off by them, I ["Joy Fisher" jfisher@ucla.edu>] would > > > like to > > > hear from you. > > > > > > Permission is granted to forward this message. > > > > > > ==== PAYORK Mailing List ==== > > > YORK COUNTY WEB PAGE > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~payork/index.htm > > > POST to PAYORK-L@rootsweb.com > > > UNSUBSCRIBE to PAYORK-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > > > > ============================== > > > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > > > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > > > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. > > > > > ==== EVANS Mailing List ==== > Evans List rule: Do not send a complaint to the entire list about what you may consider to be an off-list topic. > This type of complaint is considered off-topic. >