I'm sorry, I know this may be offtopic (though it does relate directly to both genealogy and our research), but this came to me on another list, and I know it's probably old news, but what REALLY has me concerned here is the part at the bottom from the MyFamily.com website. Can anyone help explain this, please? I have information there and can't afford the price, does that mean my pictures and stuff I have posted there will belong to them? BVE ----- Original Message ----- >Important Notice About Your MyFamily.com Website >All free websites must be upgraded to paid websites before June 23. <SNIP> >Still have questions? >Does every member of a family website need to pay? >No. Only one person needs to pay for the website in order for all other >website members >to enjoy the same benefits. >What will happen if my website is not paid for before June 23? >After June 23, the content on your unpaid websites will become >inaccessible. You will >still be able to log on to MyFamily.com and locate >your website, but you will not be >able to view photos, news items or other >content until the website is upgraded. >If this is the case, then what does this mean that is posted at their >"Terms and Conditions" site? <SNIP> >User Provided Content >Portions of the Service will contain user provided content, to which >you >may contribute appropriate content. For this content, >MyFamily.com, Inc. >is a distributor only. By submitting content to >MyFamily.com, you grant >MyFamily.com, Inc., the corporate host of the >Service, a limited license >to use, host, distribute and allow hosting >and distribution on co-branded >Services of the content. You should >submit only content which belongs to >you and will not violate the >property or other rights of other people or >organizations. <END MYFAMILY.COM> >And from a GenWeb list forward <SNIP> >If you carefully read what I posted you will see that I was speaking >about >the current relationship between USGenWeb and RootsWeb (that is >NOW owned >by the same company that owns MyFamily and Ancestry.com) in >general. >If you look at their business trends -- from free to paid, it is not > >entirely impossible to predict that Rootsweb COULD go to a paid >service. > This is conjecture, but not a pipe dream. >DO you have insider knowledge, that would assure us that this would never >happen? I'm not trying >to create panic -- it hasn't happened. My >marketing crystal ball tells me it could happen, and it would >be nice if >there could be some proactive work to prevent it. <END> _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

Looks like it unless you go in before the closing date and delete everything rather than leave it to their discretion. my two cents. donna in TX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly Edds" <beverly_edds@hotmail.com> To: <ARKANSAS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 9:30 PM Subject: [ARKANSAS] HELP! I'm sorry, I know this may be offtopic (though it does relate directly to both genealogy and our research), but this came to me on another list, and I know it's probably old news, but what REALLY has me concerned here is the part at the bottom from the MyFamily.com website. Can anyone help explain this, please? I have information there and can't afford the price, does that mean my pictures and stuff I have posted there will belong to them? BVE ----- Original Message ----- >Important Notice About Your MyFamily.com Website >All free websites must be upgraded to paid websites before June 23. <SNIP> >Still have questions? >Does every member of a family website need to pay? >No. Only one person needs to pay for the website in order for all other >website members >to enjoy the same benefits. >What will happen if my website is not paid for before June 23? >After June 23, the content on your unpaid websites will become >inaccessible. You will >still be able to log on to MyFamily.com and locate >your website, but you will not be >able to view photos, news items or other >content until the website is upgraded. >If this is the case, then what does this mean that is posted at their >"Terms and Conditions" site? <SNIP> >User Provided Content >Portions of the Service will contain user provided content, to which >you >may contribute appropriate content. For this content, >MyFamily.com, Inc. >is a distributor only. By submitting content to >MyFamily.com, you grant >MyFamily.com, Inc., the corporate host of the >Service, a limited license >to use, host, distribute and allow hosting >and distribution on co-branded >Services of the content. You should >submit only content which belongs to >you and will not violate the >property or other rights of other people or >organizations. <END MYFAMILY.COM> >And from a GenWeb list forward <SNIP> >If you carefully read what I posted you will see that I was speaking >about >the current relationship between USGenWeb and RootsWeb (that is >NOW owned >by the same company that owns MyFamily and Ancestry.com) in >general. >If you look at their business trends -- from free to paid, it is not > >entirely impossible to predict that Rootsweb COULD go to a paid >service. > This is conjecture, but not a pipe dream. >DO you have insider knowledge, that would assure us that this would never >happen? I'm not trying >to create panic -- it hasn't happened. My >marketing crystal ball tells me it could happen, and it would >be nice if >there could be some proactive work to prevent it. <END> _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ==== ARKANSAS Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send the command "unsubscribe" to ARKANSAS-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or ARKANSAS-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Beverly, I also have a site there, but I paid $100.00 for mine last year and will definitley be deleteing everything on that site They advertise in your face and I can get the same size web space anywhere, FREE with ads, so to heck with them. Thanks for posting this info. It reminded me to go there and delete.. Dee, also in Arkansas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly Edds" <beverly_edds@hotmail.com> To: <ARKANSAS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 10:30 PM Subject: [ARKANSAS] HELP! > I'm sorry, I know this may be offtopic (though it does relate directly to > both genealogy and our research), but this came to me on another list, and I > know it's probably old news, but what REALLY has me concerned here is the > part at the bottom from the MyFamily.com website. Can anyone help explain > this, please? I have information there and can't afford the price, does that > mean my pictures and stuff I have posted there will belong to them? > BVE > > ----- Original Message ----- > > >Important Notice About Your MyFamily.com Website > > >All free websites must be upgraded to paid websites before June 23. > > <SNIP> > > >Still have questions? > > >Does every member of a family website need to pay? > >No. Only one person needs to pay for the website in order for all other > >website members >to enjoy the same benefits. > > >What will happen if my website is not paid for before June 23? > >After June 23, the content on your unpaid websites will become > >inaccessible. You will >still be able to log on to MyFamily.com and locate > >your website, but you will not be >able to view photos, news items or other > >content until the website is upgraded. > > >If this is the case, then what does this mean that is posted at their > >"Terms and Conditions" site? > > <SNIP> > > >User Provided Content > > >Portions of the Service will contain user provided content, to which >you > >may contribute appropriate content. For this content, >MyFamily.com, Inc. > >is a distributor only. By submitting content to >MyFamily.com, you grant > >MyFamily.com, Inc., the corporate host of the >Service, a limited license > >to use, host, distribute and allow hosting >and distribution on co-branded > >Services of the content. You should >submit only content which belongs to > >you and will not violate the >property or other rights of other people or > >organizations. > <END MYFAMILY.COM> > > >And from a GenWeb list forward > > <SNIP> > >If you carefully read what I posted you will see that I was speaking >about > >the current relationship between USGenWeb and RootsWeb (that is >NOW owned > >by the same company that owns MyFamily and Ancestry.com) in >general. > > >If you look at their business trends -- from free to paid, it is not > > >entirely impossible to predict that Rootsweb COULD go to a paid >service. > > This is conjecture, but not a pipe dream. > > >DO you have insider knowledge, that would assure us that this would never > >happen? I'm not trying >to create panic -- it hasn't happened. My > >marketing crystal ball tells me it could happen, and it would >be nice if > >there could be some proactive work to prevent it. > > <END> > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > > ==== ARKANSAS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send the command "unsubscribe" to > ARKANSAS-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > ARKANSAS-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >