Below is a response to the message I posted yesterday about Ancestry's One World Tree. The way I read and understood the information page was what I posted yesterday. If I was incorrect my apologies. Linda homepage: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas MarionCoAR: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/ TulsaCoOK: http://www.rootsweb.com/~oktulsa2 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Myra Vanderpool Gormley" <myravgormley@earthlink.net> To: <OKMUSKOG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [OKMUSKOG] Ancestry to begin charging for One World Tree | Let's set the record straight,  Family Trees you submit to RootsWeb's | WorldConnect and/or Ancestry World Tree continue to be free for anyone to | access and search just as they always have been.  NOTHING has changed as to | your use of WorldConnect/AWT's combined database. | | The new program that has recently come along is One World Tree (OWT), which | is a new advanced subscription search feature  ( it's a tool) that matches | data found in the free trees and some of the pay databases and census | records found at Ancestry, and stitches it into a finished product to cut | out the work of searching and matching data for the subscriber.  What the | subscriber to OWT is paying for is the convenience of having the searching | and matching done for him....not for accessing or searching the free family | trees housed on their site. | | Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG