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From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: BEWARE--Your data could be taken next..(long)
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 23:31:54 -0700 (PDT)

Hi all y'all. I'm sending a copy of a post I received on another list (I
belong to about 10 genealogy lists). If any of you have already received
this, I'm sorry. The rest of you.....read on:

Erin Bradford


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>Because of concern for those of you who work so hard compliling your data
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Also, if you are entering info into your >website, please join us on
Copyright-L as detailed in the post below.
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>>From: Dayna Cohen McMullen <>
>>Subject: BEWARE--Your data could be taken next..(long)
>>
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>> Just a quick warning about a "person" who is building quite a nice web
site by >>taking our data right off the web pages where we either put it
ourselves or where we >>gave someone permission to post it.....
>>
>>The site: "The World Genealogy Archives" (not be confused with USGenWeb!!)
>>TWGA is located at: <http://oasis.slcc.edu/search/ Maintained by a
dirtbag named Matt >>Roller.
>>
>>I found the Alligood Cemetery records I transcribed to my Colquitt Co.,
GAGenWeb
>>page there this morning. He DID NOT have my permission to lift them off
my web
>>site! He didn't ask! When I confronted him, he won't answer me or the others
>>who have also emailed him.
>>
>>I also found both of the TATE bibles and the MASHBURN bible text I
submitted to
>>Anna Buxton's site "The Bible Archives at Matt Roller's site this morning.
Anna
>>told me today that he never asked her to use them. He sure didn't ask me.
He even
>>used my dialog verbatum, including the people's nicknames from our bible
records.
>>
>>If you have records online like these, census, wills, deaths, burials, obits,
>>marriages, births, diaries, journals, newletters, and so on...you might want
>>to check there to see if he has taken your info too.
>>
>>I talked to several people on the GALINA list this morning who also found
their
>>records at his site after I told them where to look. There are more victims on
>>the new Copyright-l list too.
>>
>>What can you do about this you ask.....you can subscribe to a new list and
find
>>out more about your rights to your data. It's called COPYRIGHT-L and to
>>subscribe send a message to:
>>
>>
>>with this command: subscribe in the body of the message. Don't forget
to turn
>>off your signature block.
>>
>>Another thing you can do is visit Matt Roller's guestbook and tell him
what you
>>think of people who steal data off our web pages. The url for his
guestbook is:
>>
>>http://144.35.8.177/search/guestbook.htm
>>
>>And finally, you are free to contact his internet host which happens to be
>>(can you believe it?) Salt Lake City Community College
>>
>>
>>Contributed by Dr. Brian Leverich and added here with his permission:
>>###
>>
>>Frank W. Budd <-- Campus President, Head Honcho
>>
>>Department: President's Office
>>Phone: (801) 957-3311
>>E-Mail:
>>
>>###
>>
>>Marjorie Carson <-- Second in command
>>
>>Department: Vice President
>>Phone: (801) 957-4884
>>E-Mail:
>>
>>###
>>
>>It's probably possible to dig all sorts of other interesting addresses out
of the >>www.slcc.edu Website: I'd particularly recommend looking for the
Executive Dean or >>somesuch and the Department of Public Safety. Senior
deans and campus police both
>>(for different reasons) tend to take dim views of things that cause
problems >>off-campus. -B
>>
>>And lastly, you can boycott his site, other than to tell him what you
think in his >>guestbook, and show your support to the many people he has
stolen from. People think >>he has worked so hard at building a nice web
site but little do they know how he got >>most of his data. Rather than
just decide not to put your data out there for someone >>to take, why not
stand up against people like him and put them out of commission. >>Let's
not deprive ourselves of the wonderful sharing and exchange we now enjoy
because >>of people like Matt Roller. Thanks for your time!
>>
>>Dayna Cohen McMullen mailto:
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>Genealogist against plagiarism--Please Boycott:
>>* GenForum by Cliff Shaw at: <http://www.genforum.com/>;
>>* World Genealogy Archive by Matt Roller at:
>> <http://oasis.slcc.edu/search/>;
>> NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH USGenWeb Archives!!
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Dayna's Southern Genealogy Page
>>http://home.texoma.net/~mmcmullen/welcome.html
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Need a web page? Drop by:
>>Dayna's Web Designs--Genealogy & GenWeb sites
>>http://www.10mb.com/daynadesigns/welcome.html
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Erin Bradford

http://members.tripod.com/~Kshai/genealogy.html (my surnames)
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6106/genlinks.html (+500 genealogy
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