Very late in replying to Cary's post, but if Ancestry/Rootsweb didn't exist, what would we do? We wouldn't even be using this FREE Mailing List! No, Ancestry doesn't "comb the web" to add more data. Ancestry uses databases posted at Ancestry and Rootsweb and links all of them together, indexing them, and providing a wonderful resource for research. Don't trust entirely the data at Ancestry/Rootsweb, but know that the databases posted there give many researchers "starting points" for their further research. If it's not worth the electricity, stay off the Internet. Sarge (P.S. The reason I'm so late replying to old posts is that for the past 2 years I've been working for the Census Bureau and that work has taken precedence over my genealogy "hobby". I'm now trying to go through all the posts to all my subscribed Lists. Don't think I'll catch up, because I go back to work with the Census on 12 July.) At 1/30/2010 07:24 PM Saturday, Cary Anderson wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >rootsweb is now a part of Ancestry.com. Rootsweb was a free exchange, but >Ancestry acquired it. Some parts are still free, but Ancestry tries to comb >the web to add more data to its databases of families. Aside from actually >documents, I hardly trust much on any computer site. > >Some of these pay sites will even create a tree for you from their >infomation. At least I have seen a few that way. Not worth the >electricity! > >Cary >(snip) **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry/~george/index.html