Nancy,Is Ancestry.com owned by the Mormon church? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy" <nancybrister@i-55.com> To: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 11:45 AM Subject: [GA-Roots] Re: Ancestry.com to sell Family Tree data > Jeanette, > I'm the person who authored the message you forwarded to GA-Roots; I originally sent it out to only the lists I administer. However, I'm glad to see that it's making the rounds of various other lists, because I believe it's a message that everyone who has contributed a family tree to Ancestry should know about. What has happened with the way in which Ancestry conducts its business is very disheartening. But it doesn't really surprise me, I'd suspected something like this would happen for some time. > There are other sites of the same kind cropping up that promise they will always be free, but how are we to know this is true? > The only good news, I suppose, is that the Archives & History Depts. of the various states (and districts in other countries) are placing more and more material online, available to everyone. And there are many libraries who place a lot of valuable information online. We can only hope these trends continue. > Also, when I post records for my various names on the 'Records Pages' of my website, I always try to include the records of all of those surnames, not just the people who I know to be in my family. If we all do just a little, we can help the cause of free family research! > Have to get down off of my soapbox, the air's getting kind of thin up here. :-) > Nancy > > Visit the folks! www.geocities.com/twincousin2334 > www.thepastwhispers.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jeanette > To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 1:08 PM > Subject: [GA-Roots] Re: Ancestry.com to sell Family Tree data] > > > 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. > > > ==== GA-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Faye Dyess fdy@comcast.net Listmanager > Thou shalt not use e-mail for any illegal or unethical purpose. > GA Volunteer lookups:http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/state/volunteer.html > >

Hollis, Not to my knowledge, but I am not of the Mormon or Latter Day Saint faith. I do believe Ancestry.com owns Rootsweb.com and Genealogy.com. This is for everyone's information: One Great Family (OGF) I understand was another site that was free in the beginning, but now charges a membership fee like Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com. When I first came upon their site, I found the names, dates and places of myself, my husband, my children, my grandchildren, my siblings and their families enter six (6) times. I e-mailed them requesting the names and e-mail addresses of the submitters. They sent me three (3). One name I recognized the other two I didn't know. I e-mailed them, two bounced, the one I knew and one I didn't know. The third e-mailed me back saying she didn't submit the information that I should get in touch with OGF. I e-mailed her back telling her that OGF was where I got her name and e-mail address. She finally said that she didn't remember sending it to them. I was able to get in touch with my "cousin" and he was the one who told me that OGF was once free and that he would request the information to be removed. I have requested on a number of occasions as late as last month, that they remove the information from my parents on down. They continue to refuse my request. OGF's homepage instructs you to have the permission of the individuals on whom you submit information. I explained to their representatives that no one had my permission to post my information on the internet, especially on living individuals. I told the last one that I would tell everyone I know not to use their service. She accused me of slander. I told her that the telling of the truth is not slander. I even explained the fact that people are out there stealing personal identifications. I still can't get though to them. The dollar signs ($$$$$) are the only thing they see.