Good morning, While reluctant to weigh in on this query, you have given me an opportunity to mount my soapbox - and being powerless to resist I succumb <grin> I have been a paying member of Ancestry.com for several years. I also was a donor to Rootsweb before it was acquired by Ancestry - or it's parent. I elected to support these two entities for no other reason than as a protest of Family Tree Maker/Broderbund - or whatever ilk - policy of soliciting individual researchers efforts to publish in their WFT product. I was an early implementer of Family Tree Maker - when it was the only Windows based genealogy software. I was also an early subscriber to the FTM web site. As a result I was also one of the first to be solicited for my family research. For whatever reason I was not ready to publish my work at that time. Sadly I soon realized that FTM had no idea of making the works of my colleagues freely available to other researchers at no cost. Indeed not only was there a charge - but a ridiculously exorbitant charge for nothing more than collection and indexing of the collected data. Contrast that approach to that taken by Ancestry.com - and Rootsweb. It has always been the stated policy of Ancestry to always make available - at no cost - any data submitted to its family tree. Indeed - I have routinely downloaded gedcom data published at either of these sites; and have yet to be charged for the information. My paid membership at Ancestry.com allows me access to an ever growing library of data - data which as someone else has pointed out - shows me where to go and locate the documentation to support my assertion that C was the son of B who was the son of A. Contrast that to the often inaccurate and spurious "facts" published by FTM in its published product. <smile> see I told you I would hit the soapbox. In closing I imagine that you will be satisfied with either product. You now know why I make the decision to remain with Ancestry! @W@ At 06:51 AM 2/1/2001, Larry Copley wrote: >Hi All >I'm considering joining one of the fee sites. Can anyone give me the >relative merits of Ancestry.com versus FamilyTreeMaker.com? >Thanks. >Larry Copley >moses@stlnet.com

glad you cleared up the C was son of B who was son of A I thought oh no what is this leading to C was son of B--- On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 11:50:05 -0600 "Larry M. Weatherly" <yankeigh@mn.mediaone.net> writes: >Good morning, > >While reluctant to weigh in on this query, you have given me an >opportunity >to mount my soapbox - and being powerless to resist I succumb <grin> > >I have been a paying member of Ancestry.com for several years. I also >was a >donor to Rootsweb before it was acquired by Ancestry - or it's parent. >I >elected to support these two entities for no other reason than as a >protest >of Family Tree Maker/Broderbund - or whatever ilk - policy of >soliciting >individual researchers efforts to publish in their WFT product. > >I was an early implementer of Family Tree Maker - when it was the only > >Windows based genealogy software. I was also an early subscriber to >the FTM >web site. As a result I was also one of the first to be solicited for >my >family research. For whatever reason I was not ready to publish my >work at >that time. Sadly I soon realized that FTM had no idea of making the >works >of my colleagues freely available to other researchers at no cost. >Indeed >not only was there a charge - but a ridiculously exorbitant charge for > >nothing more than collection and indexing of the collected data. > >Contrast that approach to that taken by Ancestry.com - and Rootsweb. >It has >always been the stated policy of Ancestry to always make available - >at no >cost - any data submitted to its family tree. Indeed - I have >routinely >downloaded gedcom data published at either of these sites; and have >yet to >be charged for the information. My paid membership at Ancestry.com >allows >me access to an ever growing library of data - data which as someone >else >has pointed out - shows me where to go and locate the documentation to > >support my assertion that C was the son of B who was the son of A. >Contrast >that to the often inaccurate and spurious "facts" published by FTM in >its >published product. > ><smile> see I told you I would hit the soapbox. In closing I imagine >that >you will be satisfied with either product. You now know why I make the > >decision to remain with Ancestry! > > @W@ > > > >At 06:51 AM 2/1/2001, Larry Copley wrote: >>Hi All >>I'm considering joining one of the fee sites. Can anyone give me the >>relative merits of Ancestry.com versus FamilyTreeMaker.com? >>Thanks. >>Larry Copley >>moses@stlnet.com > > >==== INOWEN Mailing List ==== >To get the most out of your posting please use your subject lines >effectively and don't recycle others. > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.