Dear Lisa, I have not gotten this type of email but I think that I saw something about Ancestry notifying me when one of the names that I put under their "I may be related" or whatever they are calling it now classification. I just looked at the website and it was under "My Ancestry" tab. It says "How does this work? We will search Ancestry.com's databases for the people in your list. When we find matches, we'll notify you by e-mail." Georgia PS I don't think you can reply to any of their email unless it is the one from "Sean" at the RightNow@ancestry.com This will probably change. While looking at my 189 emails that I started keeping track of from them, the contact address seems to change periodically. Bill and Lisa Kemp wrote: > Has anyone else gotten solicitous emails from Ancestry? I got one today re: my ancestor, Alexander McWilliams (the one born supposedly on the ship). "Sophie" said she had found a couple of listings on the Social Security Index for me, and I should go check it out. > > Because I was curious, I bit. It WAS SS information, but also a solicitation to BUY a year from Ancestry. > > AND, when I went to write back to this nice girl, it was an UNSUBSCRIBE address! > > Anyone else getting this form of unsolicited SPAM disguised as email? I don't want to UNSUBSCRIBE or block it in Mailwasher, because I do go there from home for free, and use it at the library... > > Lisa Farrand Kemp > "Farrand Families of Missouri and Illinois" > http://pookie-baby.tripod.com/Farrand2000/index.html > > Rootsweb Posting > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=speshelkay > > > ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== > A complete Genealogy just can't be...there's always more.