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.