Hi Fred, I joined rootsweb long before ancestory took over yet I have to subscribe to ancestory just to look at the email addresses on the message boards now, even my own! I've also noticed that ancestory has removed all email address from posts on the message boards before they took over. You say it is totally free of charges so maybe you can help me figure a way to contact others without paying this subscription fee? Thanks, Jen. > > -----Original Message----- > Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:46:13 -0500 > From: Fred H Held <fhheld@netzero.net> > Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] recording a name > To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com, "ann zeman" <annzeman@msn.com> > > I teach a seminar on "Managing your Family Records on the Internet". > In the seminar I encourage the use of RootsWeb WorldConnect. > http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ Although it is supported by > Ancestry.com, it is totally free and free of any additional charges.

If you manage a Rootsweb/Ancestry Message Board then check with the Board that is for Board Admins. If I recall correctly, that was some kind of a privacy/security issue. I don't think they expose any personal emails anymore and you have to go through their mail redirector to talk to anyone directly. I didn't think you could see them even if you were a subscriber, and you don't have to subscribe to reply to the board messages. That's why they took the emails off the old postings because those were not already in their database and thus couldn't get the redirection done. A bit of a mess, I agree But I think Fred's point, and my agreement with him, was about the zero cost for looking at the family tree and the complete control that you have over the data stored on their server. Regards - Glen C Bodie Web http://bodie.ca <http://bodie.ca/> Home mailto:glen@glenbodie.com Snail Mail: 76 Strathcona Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada M4J 1G8 _____ From: Brad and Jen [mailto:bradandjen@iinet.net.au] Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 7:08 PM To: glen@glenbodie.com; aberdeen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] recording a name Hi Fred, I joined rootsweb long before ancestory took over yet I have to subscribe to ancestory just to look at the email addresses on the message boards now, even my own! I've also noticed that ancestory has removed all email address from posts on the message boards before they took over. You say it is totally free of charges so maybe you can help me figure a way to contact others without paying this subscription fee? Thanks, Jen. > > -----Original Message----- > Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:46:13 -0500 > From: Fred H Held < <mailto:fhheld@netzero.net> fhheld@netzero.net> > Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] recording a name > To: <mailto:aberdeen@rootsweb.com> aberdeen@rootsweb.com, "ann zeman" < <mailto:annzeman@msn.com> annzeman@msn.com> > > I teach a seminar on "Managing your Family Records on the Internet". > In the seminar I encourage the use of RootsWeb WorldConnect. > <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/> http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ Although it is supported by > Ancestry.com, it is totally free and free of any additional charges.