In a message dated 5/6/2004 1:00:37 AM Central Standard Time, GAUNION-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > What is being SOLD is a subscription to an advanced search feature that > will match data from the free (still free) family trees and that found in other > pay databases and census records at Ancestry and present it to the subscriber > in a neatly stitched together package -- taking the work out of the > searching and matching. > > What is being SOLD is CONVENIENCE and not the trees. The trees are still > free to submit and free to search and match using the same tools that have > always been part of the program. Nothing has changed in that regard. > > This may be true, but I sure hope they realize now what will happen when they do start charging, which they may sometime. Wylene