I suddenly remembered what the scam place was in Ohio. It was Halberts
of Bath, Ohio. They sell "family surname books" that turn out to be a
bunch of surnames and phone numbers that were collected out of phone
books.
Kathy
"FISHER,JOY R" wrote:
There are a lotta folks on eBay who are selling facsimiles (Xerox copies) of
books or other materials that have lapsed into the public domain.
There is even one guy downloading maps and pictures from the Library of
Congress web site, burning them onto a CD (with his "copyright") and
selling the CDs.
You need to ask if the item is the original or a copy.
One give-away is the appearance of "comb" bindings on the pics in this
guy's
web site (those are the plastic bindings they do at your local Kinkos).
They did not have comb bindings (or spiral bindings in 1912).
Quoting "Jean R. Legried" <jrl(a)smig.net>:
> At 06:18 PM 2/10/2004 -0600, Kathy Hines wrote:
> >I got multiple copies of this today. Did everyone else get them too?
> I
> >was rather concerned that this is that old scam that is typically run
> >out of Ohio. (Forget what the usual name of that operation is
> offhand.)
> >
> >Kathy
>
> Kathy --------
>
> I didn't receive this. Thinking that my spam filter might have deleted
> it,
> I checked there too but it wasn't there. It looks like it's legitimate
> but
> I'd proceed with caution. Maybe the ebay site can tell you more about
> "ebay
> stores". If you find out something, we'd all be interested in knowing!
>
>
> Jean R. Legried, CGRS
> Norwegian-American research specialty
> <jrl(a)smig.net>
>
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