Hi, I would encourage everyone to look at the Ancestry.com preview of OneWorldTree. From their published preview, Ancestry is NOT taking family trees and simply re-selling them. I'm sure we'd all have a problem with that. What Ancestry is doing is taking submitted, published family trees and "stitching" them together, along with primary sources, to create a "webbed," extended family tree; that is, one made by COMBINING multiple trees. That is not the same thing as merely repackaging and then selling a GEDCOM, say, that one of us has submitted. Speaking only for myself, this seems to be exactly what all of us would like to have happen, similar in nature -- if not as scientific -- as the DNA studies many of our families and family associations currently are employing to "stitch" together extended family histories. None of us as individuals has the resources to do this for ourselves and, since there is creative work involved on Ancestry's part in creating this new format of information, I don't see a problem with them charging for it. Again, it's not a simple transfer of "free" information, merely bundling it and reselling it, as I read their information. As noted by WyleneL@aol.com, people can opt out but I'm not sure why one would want to. Isn't linking our trees one of the things genealogy is about and that all of us do all the time? This simply multiplies the possibilities because of a giant database and huge computer support resources. Now, we can argue about the price Ancestry's charging -- too steep for me -- but that's a different issue. And, of course, people opt in for that. Thank you. Michael Jones