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Gillg
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Following a remark made elsewhere on Rootschat I Googled my email address, and was appalled to find two entries for it, one on Rootsweb and the other on Genforum. How can I get these entries deleted, as I suspect they may have been used to send me spam mail?
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukFAIREY/FAIRY/FAREY/FEARY, CHURCH, BENSON from Easton, Ellington, Eynesbury, Gt Catworth, Huntingdon, Spaldwick, Hunts; Burnley, Lancs; New Zealand, Australia & US. HURST, BOLTON, BUTTERWORTH, ADAMSON, WILD from Milnrow, Newhey, Oldham & Rochdale, Lancs. |
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Little Nell
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That's a question for the administrators of those sites. They should be able to tell how to go about it from a technical point of view.
Nell
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Gillg
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Thanks, Nell. I have emailed Gen***um and am waiting for a reply. R**web/An***y allows me to edit my profile so that my email address doesn't show, but I'm not sure that this will help with the Google entry, so will have to find a way of contacting the site administrator, as you suggest. These are old items dating back to a time when I didn't know much about using the internet in my innocence. 
Gill
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukFAIREY/FAIRY/FAREY/FEARY, CHURCH, BENSON from Easton, Ellington, Eynesbury, Gt Catworth, Huntingdon, Spaldwick, Hunts; Burnley, Lancs; New Zealand, Australia & US. HURST, BOLTON, BUTTERWORTH, ADAMSON, WILD from Milnrow, Newhey, Oldham & Rochdale, Lancs. |
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Selina
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I also found my email on two R web sites, both Guestbooks and there does not seem to be a way of editing my entries.
Not too bothered about it but would be more cautious these days than I was then!
Selina
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Gillg
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The site administrators got back to me very quickly and informed me that my messages had now been deleted. Thanks very much for your advice, Nell. 
Gill
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukFAIREY/FAIRY/FAREY/FEARY, CHURCH, BENSON from Easton, Ellington, Eynesbury, Gt Catworth, Huntingdon, Spaldwick, Hunts; Burnley, Lancs; New Zealand, Australia & US. HURST, BOLTON, BUTTERWORTH, ADAMSON, WILD from Milnrow, Newhey, Oldham & Rochdale, Lancs. |
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Gillg
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Just checked Google again and find that the G**um reference has gone, but the R**web entry is still there in their archives, although the support team member says he has deleted it. Back to him, then to see what he can do....
corisande, that certainly does sound a bit technical for me (respider  ), but thanks for your comments. Still, one has to try.
Gill
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukFAIREY/FAIRY/FAREY/FEARY, CHURCH, BENSON from Easton, Ellington, Eynesbury, Gt Catworth, Huntingdon, Spaldwick, Hunts; Burnley, Lancs; New Zealand, Australia & US. HURST, BOLTON, BUTTERWORTH, ADAMSON, WILD from Milnrow, Newhey, Oldham & Rochdale, Lancs. |
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celia
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Gillg
When i finally found Google which i have never used,I had a go  I got 2 results,but luckily not mine.Very similar though,then again i haven't got my email on any genealogy websits apart from 2 one for rootchat the other is hidden from view.The reason being that some websites as you have found freely distribute members emails.Which is one of the reasons some people get pop up adds i think  Which i have never had.
Celia
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Gillg
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Celia
I was rather naive in the early days and not nearly so careful as I am now. 
I have just registered on a certain video calling site to keep in touch with my daughter, now living abroad. Almost immediately I received several unsolicited messages - text, not video - but I quickly found the way to restrict calls just to the people in the contact list I have set up.
All this stuff that we don't want but I'm gradually learning to deal with it.
And thanks, corisande, for your helpful explanations. You're getting down to my level now. I'll check again with the website, armed with your advice.
Gill
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukFAIREY/FAIRY/FAREY/FEARY, CHURCH, BENSON from Easton, Ellington, Eynesbury, Gt Catworth, Huntingdon, Spaldwick, Hunts; Burnley, Lancs; New Zealand, Australia & US. HURST, BOLTON, BUTTERWORTH, ADAMSON, WILD from Milnrow, Newhey, Oldham & Rochdale, Lancs. |
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Nick29
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Yes, but can you be absolutely sure that everything rejected as spam really is spam ?
About 30% of Ancestry invitations to view family trees as a guest get rejected by spam filters. I'm in business too, and I can't afford to lose emails, because each one is a potential customer.
There are ways to allow people to contact you via a website without posting email addresses.
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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