----- Original Message ----- From: Josephine Hall <[email protected]> To: Dana Thomas <[email protected]>; Sara Pyle <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 6:57 AM Subject: Fw: [GATAYLOR-L] SCAM Family Discovery > You might want to post this to the mailing list. Josephine > -----Original Message----- > From: M. Daniels (by way of Crilley <[email protected]>) > <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, September 09, 2000 7:11 AM > Subject: [GATAYLOR-L] SCAM Family Discovery > > > You've probably all heard about this SCAM where familydiscovery.com is > charging people $$$ and then linking directly to many of our "free" sites > on USGenWeb.... > > Naturally, we want to get the word around (and some official steps have > been taken by individuals in protest about this site)....but in the > meantime, we just don't want anyone to be taken and spend their $$. > > There is so much FREE sharing of materials through USGenWeb, that nobody > should be paying for any sites!! > > I'm taking the liberty of forwarding this note that Margie Daniels sent to > her Crawford List. > > ========================================================= > > Please tell everyone you know pass this email to as many people as you know. > > This site is charging people a big fee to link to our sites which are free. > They do not have an email address and it is too late once someone has > given them their email address. > > I was in the site today. One of their pages is a link to a site to tell > where to buy books! You can visit it here. > > Go to this site http://www.familydiscovery.com/Records/states/georgia.htm > > and then click on Early Georgia Marriage Records. It will take you to > another free gen site that has listed books for researchers to purchase. > > Please let everyone know before they loose their money. > > Their links can be obtained from the county sites at USGENWEB and also at > the archives. > > Help us save someone from paying for something that is free. > > Thank you, > Margie > > Also if you want to see just what they are trying to sell just change the > state to the state you want to look at. > > http://www.familydiscovery.com/Records/states/alabama.htm > > There is nothing on this site that anyone should pay for. > > > ==== GACRAWFO Mailing List ==== > 750,000 men from the South faced 2 million men from the North . 2 > million men could not defeat 750,000 Southern troops what did defeat them > was disease, hunger, lack of money and supplies. > > > > > ==== GATAYLOR Mailing List ==== > Searchable archives are here!! > Go to <http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl> > and follow the instructions. > > > > >