If there is anyone out there that has had dealings with familydiscovery.com; please contact Joy Fisher jfisher@ucla.edu. Her original email on this subject is added below. She has been in touch with her local police department. Cathy Hall Permission to forward granted for both. -----Original Message----- From: Joy Fisher [SMTP:jfisher@ucla.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 4:30 PM To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] Possible Genealogy SCAM Hi Everyone: 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 addys 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. I would suggest we all add the Java applet to bust out of the shrink-wrapping: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- Hide script from old browsers if (top.location !=self.location) { top.location = self.location } // End hiding script from old browsers --> </SCRIPT> This needs to be inserted between <HTML> and <TITLE> on every web page. If you have text files on your web site, you will need to add a little shrink wrapping of your own: Create a blank web page -- use the tags <PRE> </PRE> --- and paste your text file in between the <PRE> and the </PRE> -- and be sure to add the Java applet. If anyone out there is or has been a member of familydiscovery -- or has been ripped off by them, I would like to hear from you. Permission is granted to forward this message. Email: cat5hall@email.msn.com ASC TNGenWeb TNGenWeb: http://www.tngenweb.org/ Polk County: http://www.tngenweb.org Bradley County: http://www.tngenweb.org/bradley Personal Page: http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/PicnicPl/cat5hall/