In a message dated 5/3/04 8:39:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mhbarden@rose.net writes: > Thanks to Jeanette for alerting us to the changes in Ancestry.Com. The > commercialization of personal history records is a two edged sword. Does > this mean any personal information we may have sent them will now be under > the copyright and sole ownership of One World Preview? What about research > I did and my cousin sent to Ancestry.Com? How does this affect GA-ROOTS-L > and rootsweb.com? Yes, I know someone has to pay. That is not the most > basic concern. The sale and control of personal information which was never > intended to be commercialized leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It would be > more acceptable if they charge for their site but do not think they can > copyright and restrict usage of one's personal family tree data. Thanks > again. Margie Margie, I share your serious concerns, and I submitted nothing to Ancestry. It infuriates me to know that personal interviews and my personal thoughts and writing, have been plagarized, and will be exploited and sold, without permission, and I can do nothing. Maybe we have the same "cousin". Sherry

I've read emails where family line info was sent to others to help in their research and were surprised to find that it has been added to those people's on Ancestry. There's wrong info in Ancestry now on a brother in law of mine which now will be sold and taken for gospel. There's no way I can contact the person who put it there. Their email address is now obsolete. The majority of people who put their information on Rootsweb did so thinking it was safe and would never be sold. I'm very disappointed in Rootsweb for letting our information be sold. Some people will remove theirs, but there's so many more who may not see these notices and after May won't be allowed to remove it. I don't object to the sharing of information. I do to it being sold when everyone thought it wouldn't be. I object to some of my ancestors being 'sealed' into the morman faith after their death - nothing I can do about that, I guess, but there's a Higher Power that will some day. TYBEETIDE@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 5/3/04 8:39:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mhbarden@rose.net > writes: > > >>Thanks to Jeanette for alerting us to the changes in Ancestry.Com. The >>commercialization of personal history records is a two edged sword. Does >>this mean any personal information we may have sent them will now be under >>the copyright and sole ownership of One World Preview? What about research >>I did and my cousin sent to Ancestry.Com? How does this affect GA-ROOTS-L >>and rootsweb.com? Yes, I know someone has to pay. That is not the most >>basic concern. The sale and control of personal information which was never >>intended to be commercialized leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It would be >>more acceptable if they charge for their site but do not think they can >>copyright and restrict usage of one's personal family tree data. Thanks >>again. Margie > > > > Margie, > I share your serious concerns, and I submitted nothing to Ancestry. It > infuriates me to know that personal interviews and my personal thoughts and > writing, have been plagarized, and will be exploited and sold, without permission, > and I can do nothing. Maybe we have the same "cousin". > Sherry