Yes, I agree this is aggravating. Sometimes I get e-mails saying; "I saw
your information on Ancestry.com......" And I just think; "What information?
I never put anything on there!"

Janet Crain


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Drake" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: One World Tree


How true, Nel; accuracy and integrity are not as important as a few
miserable dollars to most genealogy subscription websites.  I have found my
words and whole paragraphs repeated verbatim on the internet, credit for
which was taken by some other pretended "writer".  One creep (and he knows
who he is) even claimed to be the author of a cute anecdote that I had
written in one of my books.

Plagiarism has been said to be flattery, but in my view it is, instead,
nothing more than petty thievery.  Especially do I feel that way since, when
asked, I have NEVER, EVER failed to grant permission for the use of any of
my works, if I am but given credit.  Whatever.

As I said, write to the internet and the "pay for genealogy" sites at your
own peril.  Paul
  Nel Wrote:
  ....Then a few months ago while searching ancestry.com for one of my
Hatchers, I
  saw matches in OWT and decided to click on it. Since I wasn't a subscriber
  to this particular feature, I got only a bare tree leading from my
  individual back to his earliest ancestor. Stepping back thru this tree, I
  started grinning and then at the earliest Hatcher ancestor, I laughed out
  loud. OTW had this earliest ancestor born in the late 1600s with a "wife"
  born in the 1800s.

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