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From: "Elaine and Bob McDowell" <>
Subject: Re: [MSPRENTI-L] Stealing Genealogy and Selling it...
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 09:31:43 -0600
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Lynn,
Keep trying to contact him, and good luck. You should have 100 percent
credit and you should be the one to make the decision on selling it or not.
He was wrong.
I wish something could be done to these people. This has happened to me too.
A cousin who did all the research, shared a copy with me. Then another
cousin asked to have a copy for his own use, and I did give it to him. The
next thing I knew it was on Family Tree Maker and FTM is getting rich off
it. I e-mailed him and told him and he just laughed and thinks it was smart.
I wish we could stop this kind of theft. Now if anyone wants to find out who
gave this work to FTM, they give his address. He did absolutely nothing and
is taking all the credit. IT IS WRONG.
This is a big problem, and something needs to be done.
Elaine McDowell
Amarillo, Texas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn McCandless" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 9:02 AM
Subject: [MSPRENTI-L] Stealing Genealogy and Selling it...


> It has come to my attention that a person has taken some of the
> genealogy that I shared with him several years ago and put it on CD and
> is now selling it. I feel that I have been taken by this person who I
> believe does not know how to do research and is just using all the
> Seago/Sego lines to get info for his CD. His webpage which I found thru
> Gendex is: http://www.ancestryweb.com/
> He is selling my family research on CD at
> http://www.ancestryweb.com/genweb/sego/
> I have tried to email him but he does not answer my email.
>
> How would all of you feel if researchers did not share info and people
> like this will drive researchers to do that. How would you feel to
> learn that a person had betrade you like he has done me? Needless to
> say, some of the info was incorrect as I did not have all the
> documentation done on the lines at that time and I did find some errors
> in my work. So incorrect info will get past along to people who want
> the easy way out of research.
> Well, I now have this off my chest as I have been boiling all week about
> this.
> --
> Lynn Appling McCandless
> Please visit my webpages:
> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lynn/
> send mailto:
>
>
>

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