Genealogy Chat

Elaine Can you give a clue as to which site this is? Margaret

If you have subscribed and paid to use Name Indexes - currently available online, then please be VERY CAREFUL. The company offering the service (for which we are paying ) are MONITORING every single account. If they believe that your useage is HIGH, then they suspend your account and YOU have to proove that every name you have looked up is ON YOUR FAMILY TREE - otherwise YOU get FINED (CHARGED*) £5 for every name you can not proove as your own. One member on Genes is being threatened with a £6000 fine at the moment, having an unusually high useage. Problem is, that this member is TOTALLY INNOCENT and does NOT do lookups for others. The company expect you to send a gedcom file to them with your tree on it, so they can use your tree against the list of names that YOU have searched for .... any names that don't match are charged £5 each. It seems that the company don't need to have 'spies' ... they simple monitor your usage and keep your searches on there own database for reference. One way round this, would be to keep a seperate list of all names searched for, so if ever asked for names on your FT, then include all these along with a few of your own. Another thought to consider, NOT everyone keeps the FT on PC ... I don't, mines on paper, so I couldn't send a gedcom, they would have to accept a list of names that I say is on my tree....... This problem is NOT going to go away. Please be very careful. Elaine :-(

Be AWARE ...... ..... see below.