So now  Rootswebs social security indexes are no longer free. They have removed them & to access them you need a membership to Ancestry.com. How great is this for Ancestry? 1 SSDI: 2011-12-21 As we said on the http://ssdi.rootsweb.com landing page, the sensitive nature of the information can no longer be offered for free on our site. We have permanently and completely removed the index as it is the only way to prevent the sensitive information from being abused by using it from non-genealogical research.  RootsWeb remains a free website. We aren't charging for anything on RootsWeb. While we have removed our copy of the SSDI we are also informing visitors that Ancestry.com still has their copy. You can use the filtered version on Ancestry.com but will need a paid membership with them. If you need more information than what is available on Ancestry.com you will need to go to the US Social Security Administration as they are the originators or use one of the many other genealogy sites that have a free SSDI.     ________________________________

Ancestry has a $49.00 rate for new users, for 6 months. not good if you have ever had any kind of access to Ancestry. Even one of the free days you get with family tree Maker. First time buyers are the only ones able to use the free days with purchase of FTM. If you buy new program and have bought before, the won't honor. I think Ancestry is trying to be a monopoly. Not every one can afford their prices.   From: N Wickam <ncwick39@yahoo.com> To: "mobarry@rootsweb.com" <mobarry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:56 PM Subject: [MOBARRY] SSDI on Rootsweb So now  Rootswebs social security indexes are no longer free. They have removed them & to access them you need a membership to Ancestry.com. How great is this for Ancestry? 1 SSDI: 2011-12-21 As we said on the http://ssdi.rootsweb.com landing page, the sensitive nature of the information can no longer be offered for free on our site. We have permanently and completely removed the index as it is the only way to prevent the sensitive information from being abused by using it from non-genealogical research.  RootsWeb remains a free website. We aren't charging for anything on RootsWeb. While we have removed our copy of the SSDI we are also informing visitors that Ancestry.com still has their copy. You can use the filtered version on Ancestry.com but will need a paid membership with them. If you need more information than what is available on Ancestry.com you will need to go to the US Social Security Administration as they are the originators or use one of the many other genealogy sites that have a free SSDI.     ________________________________ The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (thedonnacooper@gmail.com) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message