Hi Mr. Drake,
 I at no time was referring to anything you said just referring to the list
in the course of this discussion.

I understand that alot of people do not like Ancestry.com that is their
choise. I do and it has helped me find out where some of my relatives went
to. In one case I found a cousin had moved from Virginia to California via
census records on Ancestry and then via a database on Oregon deaths I found
out she had died there in 1949. And with that information I was able to go to
LVA's interlibrary loan and order a newspaper and found her obituaty in it
proving it was indeed the right lady. This is one example how it can
sometimes lead to some good information.

I just thought I could express my opinion as others have done. If others do
not like it I have no problem with that. We live in a great free country.

God bless,
     Beth
> Beth wrote:
>
> "....When you see people on World Connect who have a couple of hundred
> thousand
> people in their database while most of us have 5,000- 20,000 you tend
> to be
> suspicious of where they got their info. :)
>
> I have written to some of them, sometimes you get no response
> sometimes you
> do. But the only ones responsible as I say for taking your database
> information are individuals. They need to learn to do their own
> research.
>
> I have noticed that even some libraries have Ancestry.com available in
> their
> lists of databases....
> ***
> I have not at anytime stated that a person should not utilize such
> "genealogy for money" websites for whatever value those may have to
> any one family or line.  I simply have said that I do not use such,
> and do not advise anyone else to do so.  I also have mentioned and
> firmly believe that many if not most such sites plagiarize or
> otherwise "take" the work products of honest researchers and sell
> those at a profit without gaining or even seeking permission.  Paul
>
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