I have found that the information under Ancestry World Tree for Ancestry.Com and World Connect for Rootsweb is one and the same. You update one, you update the other. Now this One World Tree, I am not certain about. It has always been free to look up Ancestry World Trees in Ancestry.Com. I could do so even before I had a subscription. Now what I am wondering if this will be discontinued. I am wondering if I have to pay the additional cost for One World Tree. If there is no other cost and I can still get the information, I am not going to be concerned myself. I feel someone getting my information might wind up making a contact with me and this is what I have found quite valuable for these services offered by the Internet. However, they should notify all who have contributed by email of their intention to sell their family trees in case someone objects. That is only fair. Maryellen <mellenpatch5@cinci.rr.com> wrote: For once, it is not just a rumor. The Ancestry site does have a message that they will sell your data as is after May 21st. Many of you may have a listing on Ancestry without knowing it as they have taken all the datas at Rootsweb and listed them ,notes and all, even if you requested they not publish notes.I have seen listings wherein I was musing to myself..sometimes bad jingles as Ancestry also has allowed anyone to upload anything even if you requested no unloads..it's a bit of a shock to read your interior thoughts all over cyberland. Actually, they have a sliding timetable as to when they will begin to charge just to look at the freely donated datas.Rootsweb has for years been the model of pure sharing and searching for the joy of it. I guess this makes them decoys or pimps..I'm not sure which. How long before Big Brother Ancestry decids it must extract a fee for Mail sites ?We all knew that merged stank. It's sad, and I'm angry. Maryellen ==== GAGREENE Mailing List ==== Greene County Library http://www.morgan.public.lib.ga.us/greene.htm email greene@mail.greene.public.lib.ga.us

Shirley, From a letter that was forwarded to me today by someone who contacted Ancestry.com concerning this, my understanding is that the Family Trees in all locations will remain free to view as they are now. The new *fee* service they are advertising is for a search engine that will search all available information on their servers - family trees, census and other documents and put it together for you in one place to reference. It even sounded as if it will "sort" information that does not "appear" relevant - in other words if you are searching for John Smith b. ca 1780 in NC and d. 1850 in Georgia - the search will be narrowed down to exclude John Smith b. ca 1820 in NC and d. 1889 in South Carolina. Further, the search results would not only include the John Smith fitting this criteria in Family Trees submitted but also in Census, Marriage, Birth records, etc... I would suggest that if you have concerns about this to write them and ask exactly what they intend to do. I imagine they are hearing from quite a few people and it may be that they end up posting a clearer explanation of this service on the website. Hope this helps! Linda -----Original Message----- From: Shirley Tomlin [mailto:satomlin07@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 9:28 PM To: GAGREENE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Greene] Ancestry I have found that the information under Ancestry World Tree for Ancestry.Com and World Connect for Rootsweb is one and the same. You update one, you update the other. Now this One World Tree, I am not certain about. It has always been free to look up Ancestry World Trees in Ancestry.Com. I could do so even before I had a subscription. Now what I am wondering if this will be discontinued. I am wondering if I have to pay the additional cost for One World Tree. If there is no other cost and I can still get the information, I am not going to be concerned myself. I feel someone getting my information might wind up making a contact with me and this is what I have found quite valuable for these services offered by the Internet. However, they should notify all who have contributed by email of their intention to sell their family trees in case someone objects. That is only fair. Maryellen <mellenpatch5@cinci.rr.com> wrote: For once, it is not just a rumor. The Ancestry site does have a message that they will sell your data as is after May 21st. Many of you may have a listing on Ancestry without knowing it as they have taken all the datas at Rootsweb and listed them ,notes and all, even if you requested they not publish notes.I have seen listings wherein I was musing to myself..sometimes bad jingles as Ancestry also has allowed anyone to upload anything even if you requested no unloads..it's a bit of a shock to read your interior thoughts all over cyberland. Actually, they have a sliding timetable as to when they will begin to charge just to look at the freely donated datas.Rootsweb has for years been the model of pure sharing and searching for the joy of it. I guess this makes them decoys or pimps..I'm not sure which. How long before Big Brother Ancestry decids it must extract a fee for Mail sites ?We all knew that merged stank. It's sad, and I'm angry. Maryellen ==== GAGREENE Mailing List ==== Greene County Library http://www.morgan.public.lib.ga.us/greene.htm email greene@mail.greene.public.lib.ga.us ==== GAGREENE Mailing List ==== To send a message to the list please write in PLAIN TEXT to: GAGreene-L@RootsWeb.com Do not attach files to messages!