Sharon, Is this in any way related to this email I received from Ancestry: "There's a new way to grow your family tree. Introducing Ancestry Member Trees You once started a family tree on Ancestry using the Online Family Tree system we introduced back in 1999. We're now replacing that system with the exciting new Ancestry Member Trees system. So we're writing to tell you how to easily move your old tree to the new system ? or start a new tree altogether." The only tree I can think of is my tree on RootsWeb.com. I notice now that there is a banner on top. Is my tree going to become a PAID feature of Ancestry.com? Is my RootsWeb tree what I need to update? Andrea On Saturday, March 08, 2008, at 03:29PM, <SharonV45@aol.com> wrote: >To all. > >There is lots of talk within the CC circles all over the nation (CC meaning >County Coordinators) >Some sites have been moved off of the rootsweb site by the CC's because of >the buy-out of rootsweb by Ancestry. >Ancestry is forcing the CC's to place banners on each page of their web site >for Ancestry and the possibility of Ancestry taking from our sites for their >gain. > >I myself am in a crossroads on what to do. I do not want what has been >given in good faith to a free website to anyone who wants to research and moving >to a website that will cost and keeping the information free to anyone. > >There is talk at this point of trying to find another server who will host >the GenWeb community but it does not look good at this time. So hope all will >bear with all the county CC's until this is all over. > >The problem with moving to some of the free web servers is the band width >which is regulated such as GeoCities/Yahoo and some of the others. Another >words when your bandwidth has been used up for a time frame no one is allowed >into the site until that time frame expires, which sometimes is up to a week. >So much for that idea. > >Some sites have been lucky enough to get into their library and use their >server some are not so fortunate to be able to do that. Trying to keep the >information on the web site free is becoming difficult. Too many are buying up >the little guys and making a profit off of other people's work. > >Well, now I am just rambling so will conclude for now that I am looking at >other aspects to keep the work that has been done so far free to all to >research. > >****************************************************************************** >************ >Sharon Gill Vanden Bossche

All I know is, I uploaded my family tree recently, and included some photos. And now, since they are changing the system, it looks like I won't be able to access this anymore unless I pay for it. Correct me, someone, if I'm wrong on this. I'm not very happy about the change of events. John Dvorak Andrea Welter <aylayla@mac.com> wrote: Sharon, Is this in any way related to this email I received from Ancestry: "There's a new way to grow your family tree. Introducing Ancestry Member Trees You once started a family tree on Ancestry using the Online Family Tree system we introduced back in 1999. We're now replacing that system with the exciting new Ancestry Member Trees system. So we're writing to tell you how to easily move your old tree to the new system ? or start a new tree altogether." The only tree I can think of is my tree on RootsWeb.com. I notice now that there is a banner on top. Is my tree going to become a PAID feature of Ancestry.com? Is my RootsWeb tree what I need to update? Andrea On Saturday, March 08, 2008, at 03:29PM, wrote: >To all. > >There is lots of talk within the CC circles all over the nation (CC meaning >County Coordinators) >Some sites have been moved off of the rootsweb site by the CC's because of >the buy-out of rootsweb by Ancestry. >Ancestry is forcing the CC's to place banners on each page of their web site >for Ancestry and the possibility of Ancestry taking from our sites for their >gain. > >I myself am in a crossroads on what to do. I do not want what has been >given in good faith to a free website to anyone who wants to research and moving >to a website that will cost and keeping the information free to anyone. > >There is talk at this point of trying to find another server who will host >the GenWeb community but it does not look good at this time. So hope all will >bear with all the county CC's until this is all over. > >The problem with moving to some of the free web servers is the band width >which is regulated such as GeoCities/Yahoo and some of the others. Another >words when your bandwidth has been used up for a time frame no one is allowed >into the site until that time frame expires, which sometimes is up to a week. >So much for that idea. > >Some sites have been lucky enough to get into their library and use their >server some are not so fortunate to be able to do that. Trying to keep the >information on the web site free is becoming difficult. Too many are buying up >the little guys and making a profit off of other people's work. > >Well, now I am just rambling so will conclude for now that I am looking at >other aspects to keep the work that has been done so far free to all to >research. > >****************************************************************************** >************ >Sharon Gill Vanden Bossche _______________________________________________ INSTJOSE mailing list INSTJOSE@rootsweb.com To contact the List and Message Board Administrator: Rick Berkheiser, INSTJOSE-admin@rootsweb.com To visit the St. Joseph Co. Message Board: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.stjoseph The St. Joseph Co., IN website: http://www.ingenweb.net/stjoseph/index.htm Hosted by Sharon Gill Vanden Bossche The South Bend Area Genealogical Society website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~insbags ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INSTJOSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi everyone! This discussion is getting a bit off topic for this list, but I can answer your question on the One World Tree upgrade. :-) If you use Worldconnect on the Rootsweb side, the changes on Ancestry won't affect you. Your online family tree will continue to reside as it is including a copy of it will be indexed on Ancestry. This has been done ever since Ancestry bought out Rootsweb about 1999. The software Ancestry was using for family trees is woefully out dated and no longer supported, so thus the need to upgrade to a more modern system. As I recall, the Ancestry side is a paid subscriber service. I could wrong about that as I don't use that side for my online tree. I use the Rootsweb free side. I'm a paid subsriber on Ancestry so I can easily access my information there. Also I would caution all of you on making accusations concerning business practices by Ancestry's parent company, The Generations Network. These do not belong on this or any other Rootsweb list. However, I do appreciate Sharon keeping us informed of a possible web site move. Please continue to keep us informed of this development. Thank you! Rick B List and Board Administrator