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From: Vanessa Burzynski <>
Subject: Genealogy Scam
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 00:44:27 -0500


My apologies to everyone for sending that "messed up" message
previously. I should have known to cut and paste first. My mistake.
Here is the message again and hopefully you can read the whole thing.
Again, sorry if you receive this on more than one list but felt it was
important enough to be forwarded to everyone. I am not in any way
promoting this website or any other website.

Vanessa

----- Original Message -----
Subj: Genealogy scam
Date: 09/03/2000 6:30:57 AM Mountain Daylight Time
From: (Phyllis Fleming)

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
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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