As strange as it may seem, it does happen
It took remarkable courage for the former NCGenWeb State Coordinator Diane Siniard to send us the below. It is only the tip of the iceberg, and more will be revealed during the next several days. We will not attempt to explain how this happened, but rather will report only what happened. When Diane resigned as SC, she was asked how she was doing and we now present the beginning of her story.
Mary White
"Well, other than feeling like the wool was pulled over my eyes for many months and years and now I can see the NCGenWeb clearly for the first time in what seems like a very long time I am shocked by what I see and hear. I noticed on the NCGenWeb site they are running tracers on all sites that don't have their sites on the ncgenweb servers, which I did warn the CC's to be on the lookout that they were plotting and planning over, and now I am worried for those CC's because all of them are great people and they really don't deserve to be treated that way.
"Nola basically dictated to me who I was to bring into the Board and I did it and now look what I have done, I made a board of dictators who will ruin what I could have built into a wonderful project if I had been left alone. Hell, I was sent letters to send to the CC's, I think you got a copy of one [which will be published later. -mw] That was written by Derick and I was ordered to send it out, it wasn't written by me. I was sent emails of what to say and when to the CC's, what rules to implement and when, etc. I am ashamed of myself for doing what I was ordered to do. I am a grown woman and here I was a damn puppet and Nola was the grand puppet master pulling my strings and I really had no freaking idea at the time!
"I wish someone would have come up to me slapped me and made me wake up! I really regret everything I have done and did to the NCGenWeb Project to hurt but most of all to the CC's that have been hurt most of all. They really don't know and don't understand what all was really going on behind the scenes and because of it I have been called a Nazi, a dictator, etc and some quit thinking I was the one implementing and causing all of the changes. If they could only find out the real truth...I thought about posting some of the emails, etc. But then I wouldn't look any better than the Board and I am sure they would make up more lies.
"They have stooped so low as to contact all of my researchers and are telling them I am an alias, I am not who I say I am, I have stolen their research and that it won't be available online ever again, and so on and so forth. They are also asking all of my researchers to send their data to them. Well several have told them that if they find any of their information on any NCGenWeb site there will be trouble and hell to pay. Which you don't know how good that makes me feel!
"Little does NCGenWeb know that I have met a great many of my researchers in person and/or talked to them on the phone and they are very loyal and quite dedicated to me. We are like a family and they do not support the way I have been treated even though they don't know what has happened, they only know I quit and moved the sites and that is enough for them.
"I just feel like a heel for being the scapegoat and letting NCGenWeb CC's down like I did. I do wish there was some way I could let them know the truth about all of it.
"Diane"