> only the owner can make real changes to public trees. But who actually is the owner once the Ancestry subscription has lapsed? It seems unlikely that the original owner can expect to have free storage facilities indefinitely without paying for them. I have no experience of Ancestry myself; I keep: photostats of the original documents (or GRO copies), SOG handwritten index cards (still!), an electronic version on Ancestral Quest (at home) backed up at home as part of my general data security back-ups(not just the genealogical stuff). I used to hold the back-ups on floppies, then on diskettes and now on an ordinary USB memory stick. I am rather puzzled as to why anyone would load information onto Ancestry unless there was a general intention to grant access(?). Ron S