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From: "James R. Baker, Jr." <>
Subject: [ROOTS-L] Fw: possible genealogy scam
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 15:07:19 -0500



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----- Original Message -----
From: Phyllis Fleming <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 3:24 PM
Subject: possible genealogy scam


> Shelbers,
>
> I received this message after it was forwarded to the INGENWEB state
> coordinator:
>
> >>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 addys 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.
>
> I would suggest we all add the Java applet to bust out of the
> shrink-wrapping:
>
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
> <!-- Hide script from old browsers
> if (top.location !=self.location) {
> top.location = self.location
> }
> // End hiding script from old browsers -->
> </SCRIPT>
>
>
> This needs to be inserted between <HTML> and <TITLE> on every
> web page.
>
> If you have text files on your web site, you will need to add a little
> shrink wrapping of your own:
>
> Create a blank web page -- use the tags <PRE> </PRE> ---
> and paste your text file in between the <PRE> and the </PRE> -- and be
> sure to add the Java applet.
>
> 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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