[Genealib] familyhistory101.com

[Susan Scouras]

Does anyone know anything about the Web site Familyhistory101.com,
copyrighted by Genealogy, Inc.?  Someone who sent a research request
referred to a Web site called mywestvirginiagenealogy.com, so I took a
look at it.  The site is an offshoot of Familyhistory101.com.  I was not
happy to find that their "Burned courthouses" section consisted in large
part of my research and often my exact words from three articles in West
Virginia Archives and History News.   
 
The West Virginia site also has a major flaw in that it states that for
pre-1863 records researchers must go to Virginia sources, which is
incorrect, since the counties all retained their own records from
inception as Virginia counties on throught West Virginia statehood.
Accompanying the incorrect statement is a link to the site's Virginia
pages--which have nothing about the counties that became West Virginia.

 
Susan Scouras
Librarian
WV Archives and History Library
The Cultural Center
1900 Kanawha Blvd. East
Charleston, WV  25305-0300
(304) 558-0230, Ext. 742
 
 
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