. I have been at it for 14 years and everything > was free or reasonable. Then everyone got on the bandwagon and > started charging and now they are rich and we cannot afford them. Too bad we > did not buy stock in them. Barbara The above quote from Mz Scarlett reminds me of when I first started my searches back when the Mormon site was a total freebie. I still have the early CD's of the census that I used for 3 years to help others find their relatives in England. Then the LDS site was free and you got your entire line and all the names of your ancestors and their birth and marriages and the deaths. You had the entire family, names dates places etc. both sides man and wife. Then along came "whatever" and all those records were sealed. The strange part was that of all the over 300 ancestors I found not one of them was a Mormon, but because an ancestor born in 1945 turned Mormon she had the whole kit and caboodle of ancestors from the 1600's to the present SEALED. Now you get diddley......if I ever get my hands on her she will get what for. Call me thoroughly disgusted Claudia. The almighty buck when does it stop???? -----Original Message----- From: nybrooklyn-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nybrooklyn-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of MizScarlettNY@aol.com Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 10:00 PM To: vbarb@localnet.com; nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com Subject: [BKLYN] STOCK OPTIONS? Hi Barb, I did some research about Ancestry.com, etc when the Generations Network took over. My purpose was to find out if they are listed on the stock market, and their "symbol." They do not have shareholders. Research showed that they are privately owned and concentrated in Utah. It certainly appears to be a monopoly to me. Hmmm if it looks like a duck, quack like a duck..... Let's face it this is a profit making organization, who many of us inadvertently provided our free labor to it. If anyone knows otherwise about stocks, please share the information. =============== I have two issues with Ancestry along the way. One, when I found out that my husband and I separately signed up for subscriptions, they would not do anything about refunding, combining accounts, or extending time. That struck me as unreasonable and greedy. Two, and most importantly, when I researched on their site, I placed some "potential" ancestors in my "private" ancestry search file. My plan was to return there to further inspect these finds, to determine definitive relationships. Meanwhile, some married-in woman, accessed it and fouled up the authentic ancestry. At the time, no one informed us paying subscribers that anyone could do this. Some folks can defend it saying the major purpose is to share information, but on whose charge card? B > Our FHC here in Ocala, FL cancelled it subscription to Ancestry and > our local library stopped one of the other ones. I don't think they > have Ancestry. I just get upset when I think how we all started doing > genealogy years ago. I have been at it for 14 years and everything was > free or reasonable. Then everyone got on the bandwagon and started > charging and now they are rich and we cannot afford them. Too bad we > did not buy stock in them. Barbara ************** Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ___________________________________ The Bklyn Info Pages Website: www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/ List Administrator: NancyL916@aol.com Post to List: nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com ___________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYBROOKLYN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message