I'd like to heartily agree with Fred. My experience with WorldConnect, starting back before Ancestry.com had heard of RootsWeb, has been nothing short of excellent. No one has yet suggested to me a service that seems to exceed it and I have made a large number of important new contacts with people who have found a connection between us through that posted family tree. Regards - Glen C Bodie Web http://bodie.ca Home mailto:glen@glenbodie.com Snail Mail: 76 Strathcona Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada M4J 1G8 -----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> Ann, 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. I was terribly annoyed by Genes Reunited when I had to pay to see my own data, and insisted they remove my data. You have complete control of a RootsWeb WorldConnect submittal. You can specify the "cleansing" parameters, as well as many other display and download options. You can even specify if it is available for public view or not. If not for public view, it is still an excellent off-site backup of your data. (If you download a copy it is exactly as you uploaded it, not the "cleansed" version.) You can delete it if you want (something you cannot do on data burnt to CDs, such as Family Tree Maker's World Family Trees and LDS's Pedigree Resource Files.)