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From: Jack Cox <>
Subject: Family Discovery.com
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:03:32 -0600


Well, Family Discovery is back at it. These two kids from Cedar Rapids
Iowa are charging $43.00 to 59.00 for "unlimited access to their
website. The only problem is that their website is a conglomoration of
OTHER PEOPLE'S research. They put all the links they can find on their
site - even linking to other peoples personal web pages.

Further, most of their data "cells" are empty. They claim to have
census, marriage, land records, etc., and they do . . . kind of . . .

For example, for Illinois, all they have are:

A link for marriage, cemetery and death records (which doesn't work)

A link for Civil War regiments - which takes you to the Illinois Civil
War Project

Civil War regiment nicknames - which takes you to the Illinois Civil War
Project

Casualty lists for the Korean and Viet Nam war - which takes you to NARA
records.

If you're even tempted to buy this service, you may want to take a look
here:

http://www.familydiscovery.com/members/

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