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From: "Laura Greene" <>
Subject: RE: [GREEN-L] : genealogy fraud
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:07:31 -0800
In-Reply-To: <001601c0ab5b$9e3f5c20$2803010a@b6p8h9>



Gina........thank you so much for calling this to our attention.
Interestingly, if you read the fine print (see below) on their last page,
they admit to being essentially a search engine only - and have the adacity
to charge $7.99 per month for it!! A simple search using www.goto.com or
any other main search engine will return the same hits, and these search
engines are free. I think we need to alert all Rootsweb lists and genweb
site coordinators that this is happening so that no one makes the mistake of
subscribing to this (what I would consider unethical) business.

Here is the fine print for www.familydiscovery.com web site:
" Disclaimer:
• FamilyDiscovery.com pages contains EXTERNAL links which are not owned or
maintained by Family Discovery.
This is merely a search engine that takes you directly to the information
skipping all the time consuming steps
• This page does not necessarily contain a COMPLETE list of all online
information, but merely for which records have been currently located
online to compile this genealogical search engine.
• We are still currently searching for records online to add to our linking
database. "

Laura Greene
Carlsbad, CA




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gina Hurley [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 5:19 PM
> To:
> Subject: [GREEN-L] Fw: [MCINTOSH] Fw: genealogy fraud
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carolyn Clark" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 6:12 PM
> Subject: [MCINTOSH] Fw: genealogy fraud
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Michelle Campbell
> > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 4:34 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: genealogy fraud
> >
> >
> > This is forwarded:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I received this on my Hill list at rootsweb thought I would
> pass it on, I
> have no personal knowledge of these people.
> >
> > I took a minute out of our volunteer typing time to check this site out.
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > ==============================
> > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project:
> > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time.
> > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com
> >
> >
> > --part1_51.89fa01f.27de9a8d_boundary--
> >
> >
> > ==============================
> > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history
> > learning and how-to articles on the Internet.
> > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library
> >
> >
> > -------- End of forwarded message --------
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ==============================
> > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate
> > your heritage!
> > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog<br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE
> download of MSN Explorer at <a
> href="http://explorer.msn.com">http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>;
> >
> >
> > ==============================
> > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com!
> > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp
> >
>

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