----- Original Message ----- From: Lori Plymesser To: WIMARATH-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:52 PM Subject: [WIMARATH-L] Fw: [BLAIR-L] Fwd: genealogy fraud (asked by rootsweb to pass it along to all our lists) Passing this along to more lists. Lori I received this message from the Blair list and felt that it is worth passing on. If this is true, no one should make a profit from work that has been placed on the web by volunteers who intended their work to be free. I am having difficulty with my ISP at this time and can't get online for anything except e-mail. I am mailing this to all lists I belong to. Dottie in NH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bette Sears" <bezzsears@yahoo.com> To: <BLAIR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 7:50 PM Subject: [BLAIR-L] Fwd: genealogy fraud (asked by rootsweb to pass to all our lists) > > I received this on my Sears list at rootsweb thought I would pass it on, > >I have no knowledge of these people. > > http://www.familydiscovery.com/ > > > > It is a fraudulent site because a membership gives you links to our > > free sites. You do not have to pay to get to any site in USGenWeb > > Right here, there is no charge to get to all the counties in USGenWeb. > > > > We are all hardworking volunteers to have genealogy information > > free for researchers. > > > > I have found links to our Macoupin civil war rosters, censuses, > > which we spent many hours of volunteer time now to have unknowing > > researchers pay a membership to click on a link to view our work. > > Macoupin County ILGenWeb volunteers have put over 1400 pages of > > free information and continuing to work to get more pages up. > > > > If any person finds our complete work in their membership, please > > notify me. Please pass this information onto any list. Let's try to > > keep these ripoffs from making their pile of money from our > > volunteer work. > > > > Please pass this onto any list you might be on. Hopefully, this > > site will be removed soon if not sooner. > > > > Thanks for listening. > > > > Gloria > > Steve Hill > > Natchez, Ms. > > flacracker@peoplepc.com