Yes, I saw that. Ancestry sent me a copy. Has Scott filed an official complaint with Google for caching GenWeb items? Just curious. Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Rothwell" <historysleuth@gmail.com> To: <illogan@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [ILLOGAN] No More Free Genealogy > Ok Richard, my friend, here it is from the horse's mouth. The National > Chairperson of USGenWeb is Scott Burow* -- for another day or so anyway. > He > made the official complaint for USGenWeb. He just received the official > reply from Anna Fechter, Community Operations Manager, The Generations > Network, less than an hour ago. Here is the part I can share: > > "Earlier this week we launched the Internet Biographical Collection on > Ancestry.com <http://ancestry.com/>. Our goal was to offer members a > search > engine that focused > primarily on genealogy resources. We intended this collection to help > surface family history information that many people would not be able to > find easily because it is often scattered among numerous websites across > the > Internet. We cached individual Web pages in an effort to preserve > history - > if a Web page featuring important family history information were taken > down > in the future, a cached version would still be available. > > Many people have expressed concerns about the collection and the search > engine we created on Ancestry.com <http://ancestry.com/>. We recognize the > significant time and > resources members of the genealogical community invest to make their > family > history research available online. > > Over the past few days we have reevaluated this collection's goals, > caching > and crawling ability, and user experience. We have decided to remove this > collection and search engine from Ancestry.com <http://ancestry.com/> for > the time being. We are > still dedicated to providing family historians the online tools and > aggregated records that make it easier to trace their family tree and will > work to develop a solution that meets those needs in a way that will be > most > beneficial to our customers and the community." > > So you don't have to worry about understanding it anymore because it isn't > there. <G> > > Cheryl Rothwell > > *Scott is Chair of ILGenWeb. > ________ > Logan County ILGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan > > To unsubscribe send a message to: > ILLOGAN-request@Rootsweb.com > with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Caching is not the same as putting the pages in their entirety on your web site and then charging for them. When you get caught you make them free if a person registers. Only when people continue to complain and cancel do you admit it was an error in judgment.