Debbie <RoverLSmith@aol.com> wrote: > I am not blaming everything on Ancestry, nor do I get any "free lunch". > Ancestry is quite expensive and I have paid for it for years -- Genealogy > is > not a cheap hobby. I consider Ancestry.com one of the greatest bargains I have encountered. For less than $10 a month I have all of the census images at my fingertips not to mention pension files, draft registrations, enlistments, vital records from all over and on an an. I used to spend more on parking while doing research. > I am merely pointing out my objection to selling back to us our > own work, whether it's an index or not, Debbie, you keep repeating that and by now you must understand that it is not true. The infomration on RootsWeb was fre last week. It is free this week. And it was free evry minute in between. The mere fact that you might pay for a seach engine to find it for you doesn't alter that in any possible way. If you reas this please acknowldge so I will know that the next time you say Ancestry is charging you for what you donated I will know you are deliberately lying. > and pointing out why I will buy web > space rather than use the Rootsweb "Free" space, which is far from "free." There seems to be an awful lot of cutting off nozes to spite faces going around this week. > We pay for it through our Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com subscriptions. Sure. But why do subscribe to Genealogy.com? Nothing there that you can't get at Ancestry, is there? Richard