Amen to that, if you have an axe to grind or an ox to gore a genealogy board is not the place to do it, I know that some of you are all proud of Bush but this is not the place!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "nls" <naela@earthlink.net> To: <BURNS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [BURNS] Roots Web & Ancestry.com > I do hope that the List Admin. will respond to this. But I have to say that I have not see ANY "anti-American" or "unpatriotic" posts on these lists, and I belong to quite a few. What I have seen is a very few reminders that these lists are for the discussion of genealogy, not current events. And that is certainly true, and part of the "job" of the list admins. > Nan > -------Original Message------- > From: SiBeg@aol.com > Sent: 04/17/03 11:12 AM > To: BURNS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [BURNS] Roots Web & Ancestry.com > > > > > Hello All, > > <(In February 2001, A&E Television Networks (AETN) acquired Genealogy.com, > > LLC. With this acquisition, AETN extends its diverse historical and > biographical line-up by adding family history to the list and enabling > Genealogy.com to leverage the company's most recognized brands-A&E(r), > Biography(r), and The History Channel(r). As a new division of A&E > Television > Networks, Genealogy.com will continue to enrich the lives of its customers > by > providing the tools, resources, and community that empower them to uncover > > and share the unique family stories.)> > > I believe the above explains the unpatriotic, un-American, political > correct > attitude of Roots Web. It seems that whenever we get anything good going > it > will be gobbled up by those that wish to control our minds, and thus our > heritage. > > I am in complete agreement with Tim, I personally contacted Ancestry.com > at <A > HREF="http://ancestry.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ancestry.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php" > > <a target=_blank > href="http://ancestry.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ancestry.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php< /A>?">http://ancestry.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ancestry.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php< /A>?</a> and > left a message requesting clarification only to be completely ignored thus > > far. Then today I received a call wanting to know if I wished to renew my > subscription to Ancestry.com and while attempting to explain why I did > not, > the other party insinuated I must be some kind of political nut to be > patriotic and not wish to fall in with the Political Correct crowd. > > At this time I am canceling all subscriptions to MyFamily.com, > Ancestry.com, > and Genealogy.com, and removing myself from all Roots Web, MyFamily.com, > Ancestry.com, and Genealogy.com sites so that they cannot profit in any > way > from me. Thank you! > > Silas Begley > > > Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 02:59:47 -0500 > From: "Tim & Valorie Spence" <spence1@fuse.net> > To: KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <001201c2f9b6$fed8cb60$6401a8c0@armyof1> > Subject: [KYCLAY] Resignation > Content-Type: text/plain; >   charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > County Coordinator      Clay Co. Ky. > County Coordinator      Owsley Co. Ky. > Clay Co. Ky. Archives    FM > Owsley Co. Ky. Archives  FM > Perry Co. Ky. Archives   FM > Rhode Island Tombstone   FM > Delaware Tombstone     FM > > Hi All, > I have had to face some disturbing realities recently where Rootsweb and > Ancestry are concerned. A list owner recently posted a message urging > flight > of the American flag in support of our troops which are now in harms way. > > The mother of a soldier that she mentioned in her post happened to be my > wife > Who in a conversation mentioned that she had not seen as many flags as in > recent months. Margy than made her post. The response to that post from > Rootsweb was amazing in my view. Rootsweb said that any mention of > support > of our troops or mention of our flag was in fact to politically incorrect > > for them. I personally am not interested in being associated with a > organization that is ashamed of our American troops or our American flag. > I > am sure that 90% of the people on these lists are American, may be 10% of > them don't support our nation or our troops. I could care less what > the French, Germans or Canadians think. As a father I wish I could trade > places with my son, as a Patriot, I wish I could put my uniform back on > and > stand next to him to protect all of our liberties and freedoms. > > During this period, I was told that my signature tag had to be removed > from > my mailings, again because it was to patriotic. As you can see my > signature > tag remains. I am offended by the anti American stand Rootsweb has taken > and > the support that Ancestry has given them in this stance. The only reason > they get away with it is because list owners, state coordinators and in > fact > all of us who use this service let them. I can not be a party to it. > > As for myself, for the genealogical community I love so much and feel I > have > served so well for the past 5 years I will leave all of the information I > have contributed on those websites. I will not however be contributing to > > this organization in the future. While my resignation may not change the > way > this organization feels about this country or our troops, my conscience > will > feel much better. > > Timothy W. Spence Sr. > > > - ------------------------------------------------- > > War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and > degraded > state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth > war, > is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to > fight, > nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a > miserable > creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the > exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart Mill ~ (1868) > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > <a target=_blank > href="http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237">http: //www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237</a> > > > > > > ============================== > 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