Cousins, listmembers -
Because of concern for those of you who work so hard compliling your
data for your web pages, I thought you should read this message
posted to several lists today. if you receive more than one copy,
please excuse. Also, if you are entering info into your website,
please join us on Copyright-L as detailed in the post below.
Carol (Listowner for the GEN-MAT lists, IMMI-GRAND, RAN-CLAY,
ALBLOUNT, ALTUSCAL, Agnew, Bailey, Barker, Bell, Bowen, Bozeman,
Cannon, Carwile, Cloud, Creel, Crowder, Couts, DeVaughn, Ferguson,
Forde, Gannon, Garrett, Grogan, Head, Humphreys, Jordan, King,
Knotts, Lipscomb, Lynch, Page, Poole, Pursley, Roland, Sapp and
Thompson)
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From: Dayna Cohen McMullen <mcmullen(a)bigfoot.com>
Subject: BEWARE--Your data could be taken next..(long)
Hi Folks,
Just a quick warning about a "person" who is building quite
a nice web site by taking our data right off the web pages where
we either put it ourselves or where we gave someone permission
to post it.....
The site: "The World Genealogy Archives" (not be confused with
USGenWeb!!)
TWGA is located at: <
http://oasis.slcc.edu/search/>
Maintained by a dirtbag named Matt Roller.
I found the Alligood Cemetery records I transcribed to my Colquitt
Co., GAGenWeb
page there this morning. He DID NOT have my permission to lift
them off my web
site! He didn't ask! When I confronted him, he won't answer
me or
the others
who have also emailed him.
I also found both of the TATE bibles and the MASHBURN bible text I
submitted to
Anna Buxton's site "The Bible Archives at Matt Roller's
site this
morning. Anna
told me today that he never asked her to use them. He sure didn't
ask me.
He even
used my dialog verbatum, including the people's nicknames from our
bible
records.
If you have records online like these, census, wills, deaths,
burials, obits,
marriages, births, diaries, journals, newletters, and so on...you
might want
to check there to see if he has taken your info too.
I talked to several people on the GALINA list this morning who also
found their
records at his site after I told them where to look. There are more
victims on
the new Copyright-l list too.
What can you do about this you ask.....you can subscribe to a new
list and find
out more about your rights to your data. It's called COPYRIGHT-L
and to
subscribe
send a message to:
COPYRIGHT-L-request(a)rootsweb.com
with this command: subscribe in the body of the message. Don't
forget
to turn
off your signature block.
Another thing you can do is visit Matt Roller's guestbook and tell
him what you
think of people who steal data off our web pages. The url for his
guestbook is:
http://144.35.8.177/search/guestbook.htm
And finally, you are free to contact his internet host which
happens to be
(can you believe it?) Salt Lake City Community College
Contributed by Dr. Brian Leverich and added here with his permission:
###
Frank W. Budd <-- Campus President, Head Honcho
Department: President's Office
Phone: (801) 957-3311
E-Mail: buddfr(a)slcc.edu
###
Marjorie Carson <-- Second in command
Department: Vice President
Phone: (801) 957-4884
E-Mail: CarsonMa(a)slcc.edu
###
It's probably possible to dig all sorts of other interesting
addresses out of the
www.slcc.edu Website: I'd particularly
recommend looking for the Executive Dean or somesuch and the
Department of Public Safety. Senior deans and campus police both
(for different reasons) tend to take dim views of things that cause
problems off-campus. -B
And lastly, you can boycott his site, other than to tell him what
you think
in his guestbook, and
show your support to the many people he has stolen from. People
think he
has worked so hard at
building a nice web site but little do they know how he got most of his
data. Rather than just
decide not to put your data out there for someone to take, why not
stand up
against people like
him and put them out of commission. Let's not deprive ourselves of the
wonderful sharing and
exchange we now enjoy because of people like Matt Roller. Thanks
for your time!
Dayna Cohen McMullen mailto:mcmullen@bigfoot.com
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Genealogist against plagiarism--Please Boycott:
* GenForum by Cliff Shaw at: <
http://www.genforum.com/>
* World Genealogy Archive by Matt Roller at:
<
http://oasis.slcc.edu/search/>
NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH USGenWeb Archives!!
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Dayna's Southern Genealogy Page
http://home.texoma.net/~mmcmullen/welcome.html
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Need a web page? Drop by:
Dayna's Web Designs--Genealogy & GenWeb sites
http://www.10mb.com/daynadesigns/welcome.html
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