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Subject: [MO-CEM] Bad news from another list!!
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:16:53 EST

Friends,

I am forwarding this from another list that I am on the web site they are
referring to is http://www.familydiscovery.com/

Debbie Walters


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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:24:03 -0800
From: Margie <>
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Subject: Charging to link to Free sites.. not fair
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I just became aware that your Discovery.com site is charging people 7.95 for
link information to sites on many of the free genealogy sites, Including the
sites I host at rootsweb. I take offense at this, as I work hard to make
sure the information is free for everyone. You defeat that goal.. and did
not even find any of this information on your own...

I am sending a copy of my note (this note) to aol's abuse address. I feel
it is not fair for you to do this. I am also posting a copy of this note
to the lists I host at Rootsweb. Please remove any mention of sites at
Rootsweb, GenWeb, etc.. unless provided at no charge.

I pay for copies, I upload the information & don't charge for it.. Why
should you collect for work others do?
Marge Campbell
Host for Iron County MO web page, Iron county mail lists, Hermes maillist,
Wenstrom maillist. Volunteer host of several other mail lists & one of a
dozen volunteers now formating census information for free use on the
internet..
http://www.rootsweb.com/~moiron2
Iron County MO Web Page

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcampbel/home.htm
Margie Campbell's Web Page
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.



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