> 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. >