I'm sorry, I know this may be offtopic (though it does relate directly to both genealogy and our research), but this came to me on another list, and I know it's probably old news, but what REALLY has me concerned here is the part at the bottom from the MyFamily.com website. Can anyone help explain this, please? I have information there and can't afford the price, does that mean my pictures and stuff I have posted there will belong to them? BVE ----- Original Message ----- >Important Notice About Your MyFamily.com Website >All free websites must be upgraded to paid websites before June 23. <SNIP> >Still have questions? >Does every member of a family website need to pay? >No. Only one person needs to pay for the website in order for all other >website members >to enjoy the same benefits. >What will happen if my website is not paid for before June 23? >After June 23, the content on your unpaid websites will become >inaccessible. You will >still be able to log on to MyFamily.com and locate >your website, but you will not be >able to view photos, news items or other >content until the website is upgraded. >If this is the case, then what does this mean that is posted at their >"Terms and Conditions" site? <SNIP> >User Provided Content >Portions of the Service will contain user provided content, to which >you >may contribute appropriate content. For this content, >MyFamily.com, Inc. >is a distributor only. By submitting content to >MyFamily.com, you grant >MyFamily.com, Inc., the corporate host of the >Service, a limited license >to use, host, distribute and allow hosting >and distribution on co-branded >Services of the content. You should >submit only content which belongs to >you and will not violate the >property or other rights of other people or >organizations. <END MYFAMILY.COM> >And from a GenWeb list forward <SNIP> >If you carefully read what I posted you will see that I was speaking >about >the current relationship between USGenWeb and RootsWeb (that is >NOW owned >by the same company that owns MyFamily and Ancestry.com) in >general. >If you look at their business trends -- from free to paid, it is not > >entirely impossible to predict that Rootsweb COULD go to a paid >service. > This is conjecture, but not a pipe dream. >DO you have insider knowledge, that would assure us that this would never >happen? I'm not trying >to create panic -- it hasn't happened. My >marketing crystal ball tells me it could happen, and it would >be nice if >there could be some proactive work to prevent it. <END> _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

I'm glad that you brought this to our attention. Can you go in now and remove your file from the website? If so, I would suggest that you do that. They keep adding more and more fees to what used to be free. I think it would be good if everyone went in there and removed their information, then they'd have nothing to sell. Is there someone on the list who knows more about this and can explain it to us? Thank you. List Mom Barb Beverly Edds wrote: > > I'm sorry, I know this may be offtopic (though it does relate directly to > both genealogy and our research), but this came to me on another list, and I > know it's probably old news, but what REALLY has me concerned here is the > part at the bottom from the MyFamily.com website. Can anyone help explain > this, please? I have information there and can't afford the price, does that > mean my pictures and stuff I have posted there will belong to them? > BVE > > -----