Dear Mr Johnson,
If I were you I would pass up this wonderful bargain. I have a Y2K
Rempe Yearbook published be THe Rempe Family News, Denver Colorado
.{{[The publisher?? The Rempe Family News, 1181 s Parker RD.#105,
Denver, Colorado 80231] And yes it has a colorful "family crest" on the
cover. The price $40.00 plus $5.00. plus the last page has a list of
other Rempe Books for sale, cookbooks, etc, 7 in all for only
$199.00}}! It consists of sections, such as The Rempe Longevity Record,
The Rempe book of Locations, The Rempe Book of Births,The Rempe Book of
Deaths, The Rempe Book of Resident Records, The Rempe Census Records,
The Rempe Phone Book Records. Factual sure, anyone with a computer
could compile these lists. There is no history involved and no
connection is made between the lists of names. Some of the names are
familiar as they belong to our family history. I did not buy a book but
received a mailing to reserve a copy, a cousin in Wisconsin, bought one
and has sent it around. This is pure scam, in my opinion. Since I
could not pull up anyd information on this "company" of find any at all
about them I chose to pass. I'm glad I did. Even the mailing cost was
inflated, they made about a buck off that, even considering the cost of
an envelope. I wonder how many people bought one?
Sounds like you have this outfits number, this operation sounds exactly
as you described. They have probably pulled up stakes and moved to
Denver.
I'd like to say I have received a lot of help from your list replies and
postings as I am rewearching my husbands ancestors from the area of
Anreppen, Boke, Delbrueck, Westenholz in Wesphalia. I appreciated all
the information you have shared with the list. Keep up the good work.
R C Rempe
Roy Johnson wrote:
>
> I have just completed a revision of the Schnake family history, my wife's
> family. Schnake is a rare name and as far as I know, I am the only one who
> has written a family history of the German origins of the line.
>
> Recently, a cousin received the following advertisement. It sounds
> suspiciously to me like a rip-off similar to the Bath, Ohio outfit a few
> years ago that would send you a "history" of your family copied from census
> records, social security records, and all the general stuff that anyone
> could get, complete with a "family crest" that they picked up somewhere. I
> am wondering if anyone else has received offers from this address regarding
> their family histories. Here is the information followed by further
> comment:
> ===========
> I got a solicitation in the mail from Maxwell and Christina's Schnake Family
> Yearbook, 1181 S. Parker Road, Suite 105, Denver, CO 80231-2152, soliciting
> orders for The Year 2001 Schnake Family Yearbook and an included CD-rom for
> $34.85 plus $5.00 S/H. It indicates that it is published by Morphcorp LLC,
> d/b/a The Schnake Family News - Maxwell and Christina Schnake.
>
> It supposedly has factual information about Schnake marriages, births,
> records, and gathering places (mentioning people by name), together with
> "information about deaths, census records, Baptisms, immigrations,
> employments, occupations, retirements, 24 databases researched in all -- all
> about Schnake family members." "PLUS A complete revision of the classis
> Schnake Family History." (If it's yours, there could be some copyright
> infringement issues there.)
> ====================
>
> I have not been able to pull up any Maxwell and Christina Schnake on
> Switchboard.com or any other Internet source. It's possible they are even
> plagiarizing my material, as I have never run across anyone else extensively
> researching the Schnakes. I hate to give them the satisfaction of buying
> the info to see.
>
> In this kind of operation, they usually offer the same material but just
> change the family name associated with it. It might be "Maxwell and
> Christina Pace" or even some other name. Has this happened to any of you?
>
> Roy Johnson
>
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