This seems an important item to share. Pat Richardson > ------ Forwarded Message > From: "Clare Herrick" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:22:06 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Lowndes] Important Change on Ancestry.com > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 07:21:52 -0600 > > Please note: > If you submitted a family tree to Ancestry.com (or MyFamily.com) for > free viewing by researchers, that's all about to change. Later this month > Ancestry plans to BEGIN CHARGING RESEARCHERS TO VIEW YOUR TREES. > > If you don't want that, you'll have to remove your tree. > > Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/trees/owt/ > > Click on "What's a Preview" > > Scroll down to #3: Have you already submitted a family tree? > > Click on "view our checklist" > > A few lines down you will see: > > "If for any reason you do not want your tree to be part of the new > OneWorldTree service, you must delete it from the Ancestry World Tree > database by tentatively May 21, 2004." > > There are instructions for removing your tree: > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ancestry.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_fa > qid=1090 > > Thanks to Gloria Holback of GAGenWeb for posting the note that brought > this to the attention of our Mississippi State Coordinator, who passed this > along to the county coordinators, > and I am informing ya'll. > > Clare L. Herrick, County Coordinator > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mslownde > http://www.rootsweb.com/~msoktibb > >