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Here is the complete third paragraph, with apologies once again for whatever seems to have excised it from this afternoon's and this evening's early posts. -jk
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However, there is slightly more to the story. Those errors are not mine, but the work of someone else. I am learning about the web fast, moving from no knowledge at the beginning of the year to a sad experience of its dangers today. I had no idea that someone could take what is on your web site, alter it, and put it back. That is what someone did to my site. I do not know when this happened, for I never looked at my material after I put it on the web -- a terrible mistake I have learned. When I looked closely this past weekend, I discovered that my North Carolina materials were not on the site, large portions of my essay on using probate materials were missing, as were sections of my bibliographies, and words had been added to my probate records. Most outrageously, and this would be funny in other circumstances, someone had gone through the book section of the probate material and inserted _Cleland's Memoirs_ in several of the book listings. It took me a while to catch on to that one, and I only did so because it appeared several times. Al Young kindly informed me that _Cleland’s Memoirs_is the famous early work of pornography, Fanny Hill, published in the 1760s as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure! Some rather sophisticated hacker made these religious Vermont, Maine, and Ohio settlers into devotees of porn.
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