Good Day!
I am forwarding this to all my genealogy cousins/friends. There has been so
much
discussion the past two weeks, or at least on the lists I subscribe to.
From the gist - they seem to be saying that Gen-Form, where you can submit
your family tree info, puts a copyright on it when they put it on the net,
and the bottom line is that they then own it. You can do nothing with it
yourself.
One just has to remember that though it is certainly nice to have the 'net
information and be able to get some clarity - which should be proved - even
in genealogy we run into greedy people.....Carolyn from IN. You must judge
this for yourselves. Please read some of the comments below:
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Subject: Ethics
Hi everyone. This came as a message from the listowner for the Rockingham,
New Hamspshire list. I thought everyone ought to see what may be going
on. Mr. Marston has asked that we send this along to the lists we belong to
so
I am doing so. If this is an improper use of the lists I belong to, I
apologize.
Please disregard. But as someone who's downloaded much of my hard work to
genealogy.com...I am interested to see how this plays out.
Dick Marston wrote:
Listers:
I have naively included a link to GenForum for those wishing to post and
respond to Rockingham and Marston surname queries. Furthermore, I have
innocently posted several responses on those forums. Today, I have amended
the link on Rockingham's Queries Index Page to read as follows:
**If you want still another place to search and post, try the Rockingham
County message board on [
genforum.genealogy.com/nh/rockingham/ ]
WARNING!! ....Any information which you share on GenForum's message
boards may be copied by
Genealogy.com [/FamilyTreeMaker.com] and
sold by them for profit either as data included on a monthly/annual
subscription or as a CD for purchase. Much of this information is totally
unreliable. Caveat emptor [Buyer beware]. In order to see what, if
any, information
Genealogy.com has acquired from your voluntary contributions,
you will first need to subscribe to their service available to paying members
only.**
I am SO angry I could spit!! Until I started checking up on this
fiasco about my father's pedigree, I had NO clue that
Genealogy.com was
doing this. I want to declare WAR! I can't get through to their
leaders, but I sure would like to get through to their potential customers and
unwitting voluntary contributors.
Please feel free to copy and paste [or send] this warning wherever,
or to whomever, you think might do the most good. You may post it as
your own message or as a quote from me, whichever you prefer. Your
help will be greatly appreciated.
Denise
dcmeta(a)interx.net
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