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From: "Marty Ryerson" <>
Subject: [REED-L] FW: genealogy fraud (asked by rootsweb to pass to all our lists)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:24:36 -0500


I was able to have the charge for this removed from my credit card bill, and
I only had to ask once. I am sure they would not have done that without
verifying that it is indeed a fraud.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bette Sears [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 8:50 PM
To:
Subject: Fwd: genealogy fraud (asked by rootsweb to pass to all our lists)

--- flacracker <> wrote:
> From: "flacracker" <>
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:23:44 -0600
> Subject: [[SEARS-L]] genealogy fraud
> To:
> Reply-to:
>
> I received this on my Sears list at rootsweb thought I would pass it on,
>I have no knowledge of these people.
> 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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>


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