Ancestry is a business. Merging and linking the data they have is a smart business move. Many unsuspecting individuals will fork over their credit card number to get the garbage that has been 'donated.' When they decide not to renew they will spend months trying to stop their subscriptions and credit card charges. Many of the trees submitted to Ancestry have glaring errors and no documentation noted, merged families, and children that do not exist. The same is true of the Morman Church records (IGI, and Ancestral files). This new subscription service will make it harder than ever to educate people to CHECK SOURCES. The really scary part is--some individuals will find a tree that shows that their great-grand someone is a descendant of a President, King, famous or infamous individual and take it as "Gospel." MyFamily.Com (parent of Ancestry) also owns FamilyTreeMaker and Rootsweb. How long will it be before the mailing list becomes a paid subscription? Rootsweb also provides "FREE" space for the, volunteer-not for profit, USGENWEB project. MyFamily.Com has some really smart marketing managers - they got suckers like you and I to do the research, transcribe records, and now they can legally steal it and resell it. Janice Pate PS: Include the word "GENEALOGY" in the subject line or the e-mail goes in the trash. _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/