I think as County hosts we should be careful about promoting for profit
organizations. Personal recommendations are one thing, but placing links
on non-profit pages for businesses of this sort could become an issue at
some point.
He's not only sent the email for my GaGenweb pages but for the Southwest
Georgia Genealogical Society and Public Library pages that I host as well.
Debra Boswell
----- Original Message -----
From: Lorraine Newsome <doolycc(a)earthlink.net>
To: <GAGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: [GAGEN-L] Allcensus
I got the same note and was advised to stay away from them. From what
I
hear, they are not as good as some of the others.
At 03:26 AM 12/17/00 -0500, MFLP(a)aol.com wrote:
>I have received the following email.
>Quote
>Hi Donna,
>My name is Jon McInnis.
>I own a website named Allcensus.
>I would like for you to place my site in your links list.
>I have already included your site in my links pages.
>Unquote
>His link is to a commercial site selling census CD Rom's
>If you go to
>http://www.allcensus.com
>Click on enter here
>Type your County into the Search engine
>Then click on
>Georgia Genealogy Data and Links for successful genealogy research
>You will be locked into his frames unless you have a breakout on your
page
>or you can go to
>http://www.allcensus.com/linksga.html
>and be directly on the link page which resembles
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/table.htm
>
>I only received this on one of my counties so far, but I would expect
more.
>Opinions please.
>
>Donna
>
>
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