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Madaline Preston <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:55:57 -0400
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Lets not leave out the LDS in the error compounding
department.
Mitzie

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:20:47 -0500
>From: Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Ancestry.com
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>...and charge obscene fees for usually free, yet mediocre,
undocumented information regularly plagiarized or pirated
from the honest, albeit unwary researcher.  Paul
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Wilmer L. Kerns
>  To: [log in to unmask]
>  Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:12 AM
>  Subject: Ancestry.com
>
>
>  Kathleen, I have had similar experiences with
ancestry.com and on top of
>  that they are either non-responsive or arrogant. They
also take you for
>  granted.
>
>  Wilmer L. Kerns
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>
>  ....When I contacted Ancestry to ask where they had
obtained the erroneous
>  information, which I had copyrighted (the language was
quite
>  distinctive and could not have come from any other
source), they
>  refused to tell me. They also refused to add my copyright
notice, or
>  even to let me look at the information they were selling
unless I paid
>  them something like $50 for the CD.
>
>  Needless to say, I refuse to have anything to do with
Ancestry, which
>  in my experience is dishonest, unreliable, and
unscrupulous.
>
>  Kathleen ....
>
>
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