I have had same thing happen to info my sister (Alice Bishop) and I have collected over past 35+ years by sharing with distant cousins trying to make connections. Reluctant to share much anymore with anyone that I don't know. Glad to know that we are not by ourselves with this problem. Phoebe -----Original Message----- >From: John <sowgenealogy@sunflower.com> >Sent: Mar 9, 2008 10:30 AM >To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] Finding your work on the Internet > > > >Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] Finding your work on the Internet (WAS: Folks > > >> Connie and Carol, >> >> I found all my work--my entire database, with notes, posted on the >> Internet about 15 years ago. I know how it got there, without my >> permission and without crediting me, and I am no longer using that >> research firm. My data file has been sold and re-sold to several >> genealogy companies over the years, and it is now on Ancestry.com's One >> World Tree and Rootsweb's World Connect Project...and probably a few >> other places that I don't know about. >> >> The problem is that my name has not been associated with all my >> work...sources...notes. The contact for my data is shown as: >> "Anonymous." I am sure that has caused me to miss having contacts from >> - who knows - hundreds of cousins in the years my data has been on the >> Internet. And...how would you feel if someone posted a message on a >> genealogy list that quoted your research notes word for word? That was >> how I found out about my information being on the Internet. >> >> I am always happy to find new cousins to share information with, but I >> am not happy about this experience. Neither of the two companies >> mentioned above will replace "anonymous" with my name...their modus >> operandi is to pass the buck..."Maybe (someone else) can help you with >> that." Yes, I could upload my family tree to both websites and >> elsewhere, and it would add to the tons of duplicate information already >> "out there." >> >> I forget about this until someone mentions a related problem. Thanks >> for "listening!" >> >> Striving to keep a positive attitude...and just crabby today. >> >> Paula Kelley Ward >> chachalady@sbcglobal.net >> "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy >> enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright >> > I know what you mean Paula. I usually am willing to send people what I >have when they are looking for someone as I have had numberous people help >me. Will this one perspm, whom I thought I was sending a ged file to of one >of my lines, got it, it turned out I had sent him y entire data base on both >sides of my family. Much of it undocumented and some not proven. He posted >it all on World Connect. Just looked and apparently it is no longer on >WoldConnect,, BUT there are other who have posted referenceing >"sargentgedcom.ftw". So apparently others have copied it and posted it. One >in Particular was a Story Low Sargent who I had looked for for years. My >parents had told me he was buried in the Dunlap Cemetery, the town Iwas born >and grew up in, but never could find a headstone. It was quite by accident >that I found where his grave was, marked only by a field stone. None of the >postings gave reference to my research only the GEDCOM file. It makes my >blood boil whn people do that. When I get information I, when I remember >to, always put the person's name and/or contact in as the source. Well that >is my two cents worth. > John Sowers in Lawrence, KS >researching Sowers, John, Miller, Booth. Eller, Sargent and other related >families. >sowgenealogy@sunflower.com > > >-- >I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. >It has removed 167 spam emails to date. >Paying users do not have this message in their emails. >Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > >********************************** >Note from List Administrator!!! >The Second Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll Call. Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us something about your Brick Wall person. >To contact Listowner: >Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com >********************************** >Search this list's archived messages! >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message