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From: "Ramona Gayle Woods" <>
Subject: Genealogy Rip off!
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:13:47 -0500


Hi Everyone,
Has anyone heard of this www.familydiscovery.com?
I went and looked at this site and it does not seem legit and it is
also expensive to join.
Anyway I thought everyone should be on the lookout for this site, this
is so sad and makes me angry.
Sincerely,
Ramona
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| > About 2 weeeks ago we received a complaint from an Archives
| submitter
| > that her materials were found on a genealogy subscription
service:
| >
| > www.familydiscovery.com
| >
| > The submitter was able to do a little digging and found that they
| > were
| > linking to her files housed on her server, but shrink-wrapped
| inside
| > a
| > frame so it appears to be THEIR work. About 10 days ago, to
| > investigate
| > this, I signed up with familydiscovery. To date, I have not
| received
| > a
| > user id or password to get inside. The registered owners of the
web
| > site
| > gave bogus telephone numbers in their registration. One number
goes
| > to a
| > recorded message line; the other to a carpet company. Some of the
| > e-mail
| > adds on their web site bounce.
| >
| > Standing on the outside and looking through the window, it
appears
| > that
| > several
| > folks' web sites have been prize-mined:
| >
| > http://www.familydiscovery.com/whatsnew.htm
| >
| > The Storey Co., IA and the Washington Co., PA stuff seem to come
| > from
| > USGenWeb sites. Some of the other IA and NC stuff seems to come
| from
| > non-USGW sites. None of the materials seem to be housed at either
| > rootsweb or usgennet.
| >
| > If anyone out there is or has been a member of familydiscovery --
| or
| > has been ripped off by them, I ["Joy Fisher" >]
| would
| > like to
| > hear from you.
| >
| > Permission is granted to forward this message.
| >







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