I totally agree. Especially since someone is selling this for profit! Isn't this against the law? from Carolyn Whitney Branagan Caradwen von Braskat wrote: > Hello Cousins > > This really ticks me off. Just for a lark I went to ancestry.com and > put my last name (Braskat) into their search engine. The following > link shows what I got: > > http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=5519&gsi=-1&db=gedind&prox=-1&f0=BRASKAT&f1=&ti=5519 > > > In checking who submitted this to them I get the following: > Submitter rholmes@msrad3.med.uth.tmc.edu > > It looks to me that someone stole this information from our Whitneygen > site or "obtained it" and then shared it. Why do I come to this > conclusion you ask? Simple really - they have my grandfather as > "Harold Daniel Braskat" when his name was "Howard Daniel Braskat" and > this error first appeared in two of the databases on the Whitneygen site. > > I have recently advised my lovely cousins of the error, and upon > checking just now my grandparents names are correct on our site (my > grandmothers name was wrong as well though my great-grandmothers is > still wrong, but I'll deal with that soon). > > I'm not sure why I take exception to this happening. I know the > information is there on the whitneygen site - out there for all to > see, and to even download once they obtain the password from Tim > Doyle. However, it still bugs the crap outta me that this was > submitted to ancestry.com and the information isn't even correct! > > GGGrrrrrrrr > > OK - rant over with - sorry to subjecting you all to this... just > wondering what others think of this. > > Caradwen, whose line is: > > John1 Whitney - Benjamin Whitney - Mark Whitney - Jason Whitney - > Fisher Whitney - James Watkins Whitney - Samuel D. Whitney - Lorenzo > Henry Whitney - Zada Marian Whitney - Barbara Doris Shumway - Linda > Marian Braskat - Caradwen Lane Braskat > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > >