I have talked with people that are associated with LSD church and they say it is all one and the same.  Family Tree Maker and the free Personal Ancesty File that is offered on the LSD site are both put out by the LSD people. Mary ________________________________ From: John S. Adams <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] ARIZARD Digest, Vol 7, Issue 185 Mary,I think that you'll find that Ancestry is a separate for profit company, not associated with the LDS church, although I wouldn't be surprised if some of its principals were LDS members.  Ancestry charges for its services, whereas the LDS attempts to share its resources at little or no cost to the user.  Ancestry and LDS have cooperated on some projects in the past, but I think Ancestry would generally view LDS as a competitor. John S. AdamsVentura, CA > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:47:46 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Mary f. Jones" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Genology > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: >     <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Actually Ancestry and Familysearch are all a part of the same thing.? I don't understand why you cannot access familysearch.org.? It comes up fine for me.? Ancesty, familysearch, rootsweb and genealogy.com are all done my the Latter Day Saints out of Utah. > Mary>                         ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message